The State of New Albion Colony is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 15.758 billion New Albion Colonyians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. The average income tax rate is 25.3%.

The New Albion Colonyian economy, worth 680 trillion betales a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 43,177 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, the tenet of free speech is held dear, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and New Albion Colony has designated Westminster as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Albion Colony's national animal is the deer.

New Albion Colony is ranked 143,203^rd in the world and 1^st in Sydney for Lowest Crime Rates, with 61.58 law-abiding acts per hour.