The Principality of Cornwallis Bay is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Prince Benjamin I with a fair hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 851 million Cornwallisians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital District. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Cornwallis Bayian economy, worth 85.9 trillion shillings a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 100,888 shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Billions of shillings are being blown on orbital weapons development, high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, smoking is banned in public areas, and human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cornwallis Bay's national animal is the duck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cornwallis Bay is ranked 53,971^st in the world and 1,864^th in The North Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 26.45 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.