The Democratic Republic of Fourth Confederate States is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, avant-garde cinema, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 565 million Fourth Confederate Statesians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Richmond. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.8%.

The thriving Fourth Confederate Statesian economy, worth 46.8 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 82,900 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Fourth Confederate States Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere', the tomato-covered corpses that decorate the nation's cities are a favourite amongst morbid tourists, Fourth Confederate States has designated Richmond as its capital city, and truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Fourth Confederate States's national animal is the Orange Trout, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Fourth Confederate States is ranked 54,136^th in the world and 1,487^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,094.66 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.