The Confederacy of Novian Republics is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Chancellor Ishimoto with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.899 billion Novians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sekyo. The average income tax rate is 85.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Novian economy, worth a remarkable 1,305 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 109,749 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Chancellor Ishimoto's new political program is often mockingly called 'Capitalism with a Bigtopian face', there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and light entertainment isn't dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Novian Republics's national animal is the eagle-owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Novian Republics is ranked 20,881^st in the world and 92^nd in Forest for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 273.49 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.