The Matriarchy of New Bubastis is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 571 million New Bubastites 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akset. The average income tax rate is 55.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong New Bubastian economy, worth 33.6 trillion talents a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 58,811 talents, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes, preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and the little guy plays a big role in New Bubastian politics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Bubastis's national animal is the serval, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Bubastis is ranked 224,844^th in the world and 500^th in Europeia for Largest Populations, with 571 million capita.