The Principality of Cornwallis Bay is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Prince Benjamin I with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.234 billion Cornwallisians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital District. The average income tax rate is 96.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Cornwallis Bayian economy, worth a remarkable 1,282 trillion shillings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 177,269 shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, the standard police uniform now comes with several colours of belt, candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED, and badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game. Crime is totally unknown. Cornwallis Bay's national animal is the duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Cornwallis Bay is ranked 18,501^st in the world and 170^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 7,431.34 on the Gilded Widget Scale.