The Turtle Isles of Eastern New England is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nicholas with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, compulsory vegetarianism, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 8.973 billion New Englishmen 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 Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boston. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient New English economy, worth a remarkable 1,223 trillion sand 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 136,370 sand dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A passport is literally priceless, physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, and bad punctuation has come to a full stop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastern New England's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Eastern New England is ranked 4,761^st in the world and 94^th in 10000 Islands for Highest Food Quality, scoring 210.64 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.