The Ritual of New Octicarg is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Papa Emeritus IV with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.088 billion New Octicargians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Achtimont. The average income tax rate is 86.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Octicargian economy, worth 289 trillion galleons 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 138,499 galleons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws, New Octicargians refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, and a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation. Crime is totally unknown. New Octicarg's national animal is the octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Synod of Singularity.

New Octicarg is ranked 202,347^th in the world and 9,842^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -14.97 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.