The People's Republic of Nueva Bastonia is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its national health service, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 907 million Nueva Bastonians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nueva Venezia. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Nueva Bastonian economy, worth 31.5 trillion fuenas 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 Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 34,709 fuenas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten, the building of bureaucratic rivalries has exceeded targets, and Nueva Bastonia has designated Nueva Venezia as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nueva Bastonia's national animal is the Cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nueva Bastonia is ranked 54,731^st in the world and 998^th in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.