The Federal Republic of New England-New Brunswick is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Whitlock with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.916 billion New England-New Brunswickians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boston. The average income tax rate is 97.5%.

The frighteningly efficient New England-New Brunswickian economy, worth 603 trillion New England-New Brunswick Dollars 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 154,046 New England-New Brunswick Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, ADHD now stands for Attention Distracted by Hardware Devices, hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead", and volunteers are signing up to take arms against an incursion of flesh-eating zombies (New England-New Brunswick has found 6 easter eggs). Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New England-New Brunswick's national animal is the Moose, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pluralism.

New England-New Brunswick is ranked 12,050^th in the world and 14^th in The League for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 9,008.98 on the Gilded Widget Scale.