The Free Market Plutocracy of New Portuguese Empire is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Chief Financial Officer with an iron fist, and notable for its feral children, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.056 billion New Portuguese are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santazela. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient New Portuguese Empirean economy, worth a remarkable 4,119 trillion Escudoes a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 409,633 Escudoes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,780,076 per year while the poor average 4,413, a ratio of 856 to 1.

Ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto New Portuguese Empirean beaches, the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses, minefields are being deployed along the border to discourage potential emigrants from trying to leave, and warfare increasingly resembles a video game. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. New Portuguese Empire's national animal is the Iberian Fox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

New Portuguese Empire is ranked 7,953^rd in the world and 426^th in Lazarus for Largest Governments, scoring 38.03 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.