The Democratic Republic of Terra Australis Nova is a large, genial nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 80 million Terra Australis Novans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Welfare, with Education and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality is ignored. The average income tax rate is 30.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Terra Australis Novan economy, worth 3.37 trillion Australisas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,123 Australisas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A surprising number of police officers have been arrested for Polar bear sacrifices, cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, prison visits increase substantially during election years, and lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'. Crime is totally unknown. Terra Australis Nova's national animal is the Polar bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Terra Australis Nova is ranked 118,292^nd in the world and 610^th in 10000 Islands for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,649.59 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.