The Matriarchy of New Bubastis is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its smutty television, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, democratic population of 522 million New Bubastites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akset. The average income tax rate is 52.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The New Bubastian economy, worth 30.1 trillion talents a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 57,638 talents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts, and the nation's air force consists of strongly-worded letters folded into paper airplanes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Bubastis's national animal is the serval, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Bubastis is ranked 270,286^th in the world and 1,175^th in Europeia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.72 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.