The Socialist Federal Republic of Nouvelle-Louisbourg is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by President Orbitál with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, rampant corporate plagiarism, and digital currency. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.249 billion Louisbourgians 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 Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Léogré. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Nouvelle-Louisbourgian economy, worth a remarkable 1,417 trillion SFRNL francs 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 195,480 SFRNL francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

President Orbitál has more friends than ever before, the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills, a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nouvelle-Louisbourg's national animal is the golden eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Nouvelle-Louisbourg is ranked 4,517^th in the world and 71^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Cultured, scoring 173 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.