The Holy Golden turtle of Quebec-and-Maritimes is a massive, genial nation, ruled by turtle with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.743 billion turtles enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The enormous, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Healthcare, Welfare, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of turtle city. The average income tax rate is 65.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong turtle economy, worth 101 trillion turtlecoins a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 58,465 turtlecoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award, artists are pillars of society, video clips of women firing guns are increasingly popular, and being turtle has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quebec-and-Maritimes's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is yuserism.

Quebec-and-Maritimes is ranked 187,369^th in the world and 3,745^th in The East Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 37.2 billion Standard Monetary Units.