The Free Communes of New Proviles is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Alain Bacque with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.633 billion New Provilesians 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 enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cité de la Liberté. The average income tax rate is 91.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Provilesian economy, worth 469 trillion bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 129,284 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them, sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself, students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework, and the media seems excessively interested in what Alain Bacque is wearing this season. Crime is totally unknown. New Proviles's national animal is the Coastal fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Proviles is ranked 281,923^rd in the world and 3,953^rd in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -367 on the Scary Big Number Scale.