The Federation of Quebec second is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by liberties with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, soft-spoken computers, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.196 billion Quebec secondians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Montreal. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Quebec secondian economy, worth a remarkable 2,049 trillion bottles of maple syrups a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 222,824 bottles of maple syrups, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Liberties has been known to make speeches in fishing waders, juvenile delinquents are fitter than ever, the government guarantees extra-soft tissues to fire-snorting elephants, and subsistence farmers require doctorates in applied sowing. Crime is totally unknown. Quebec second's national animal is the Racoons, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is mythologies.

Quebec second is ranked 330,494^th in the world and 518^th in The Communist Bloc for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 17.2 on the Bus Surprisal Index.