The City-State of Senhora dos Mares is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Matilde da Encarnação Oliveira with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.536 billion Nova-lisboetas 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Lisboa. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova-lisboeta economy, worth 937 trillion Libras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 206,700 Libras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign workers are flooding in as Libras flood out, 42 is the answer to life the universe and the new bus route into Nova Lisboa, the government has invited tenders from other nations to run the country's infrastructure, and Matilde da Encarnação Oliveira's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Senhora dos Mares's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Senhora dos Mares is ranked 171,098^th in the world and 113^th in Fifth Empire for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 188.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.