The Borderlands of New East Scandinavia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its national health service, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 17.077 billion Scandinavis 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 Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anagrom Ataf. The average income tax rate is 83.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving New East Scandinavian economy, worth a remarkable 1,586 trillion Zoiks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,917 Zoiks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho), kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers, throwing garbage out of your house's front window makes it legally someone else's problem, and jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New East Scandinavia's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New East Scandinavia is ranked 18,461^st in the world and 462^nd in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 293.07 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.