The Most Serene Jarldom of United Provinces of Atlantica is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Allsherjargoði Matteus Gunnlaugsson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 26.244 billion Atlanticans 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Social Policy, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stórkostlegurborg. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Atlantican economy, worth a remarkable 7,103 trillion Krónas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 270,675 Krónas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across United Provinces of Atlantica, teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank, and witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials. Crime is totally unknown. United Provinces of Atlantica's national animal is the Brown bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Norse paganism.

United Provinces of Atlantica is ranked 33^rd in the world and 1^st in Aurelia for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 17,553.07 on the Societal Mobility Rating.