The Colony of Novastrum is a large, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 67 million Novastrumians 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 28.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Novastrumian economy, worth 4.39 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 65,560 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants, people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, and lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Novastrum's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Novastrum is ranked 60,412^th in the world and 454^th in Artificial Solar System for Safest, scoring 98.81 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.