The Republic of Nova Patris is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 490 million Nova Patrisians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ionia. The average income tax rate is 57.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Nova Patrisian economy, worth 21.4 trillion Nuts a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,764 Nuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The banshee wail foretells skies of death, tourists visit Nova Patris to mass-moon Nova Patrisian politicians, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, and Nova Patris has designated Ionia 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. Nova Patris's national animal is the Plankton, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Nova Patris is ranked 180,301^st in the world and 7,541^st in Osiris for Highest Economic Output, with 21.4 trillion Standard Monetary Units.