The Republic of Quebec-Libre is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lucien Bouchard with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and smutty television. The compassionate, cheerful population of 10.331 billion Quebecois have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Quebec City. The average income tax rate is 85.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Quebecois economy, worth a remarkable 1,761 trillion piastres a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 170,475 piastres, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lucien Bouchard's peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones, and daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quebec-Libre's national animal is the beaver, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Quebec-Libre is ranked 5,958^th in the world and 2^nd in The Third Entente for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 520.7 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.