The Meantone Temperament of Novskya is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Marin Mersenne with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 21.857 billion Quarter-tones live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, outspoken government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Circle of Fifths. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.2%.

The all-consuming Quarter-tonal economy, worth a remarkable 2,024 trillion Dieses a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Tourism, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 92,634 Dieses, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 387,327 per year while the poor average 14,440, a ratio of 26.8 to 1.

Tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers, students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework, almost every singles' party has a clergy and courtesans theme, and traumatized ex-ambassadors seek treatment for their "desk dissociation". Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Novskya's national animal is the Syntonic Comma, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Just Intonated Ratios.

Novskya is ranked 271,003^rd in the world and 2^nd in Commonwealth of Diverse Nations for Highest Poor Incomes, with 14,440.52 Standard Monetary Units.