The Federal States of New Argontinica is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Alex Danubier with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, enslaved workforce, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.27 billion New Argontinicians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jackbridge. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.7%.

The very strong New Argontinican economy, worth 72.5 trillion Kuranziens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 57,075 Kuranziens, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience, everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist, pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches, and there are no more heroes any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Argontinica's national animal is the Liberta Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholic.

New Argontinica is ranked 69,164^th in the world and 123^rd in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,749.12 on the Gilded Widget Scale.