The Turtle Isles of Eastern New England is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Nicholas with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, fear of technology, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 14.078 billion New Englishmen are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Boston. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient New English economy, worth a remarkable 2,102 trillion sand dollars 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 149,313 sand dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space, protests are legal but strictly supervised, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and diplomats are always trying to convince other nations to adopt l33t speak. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastern New England's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Eastern New England is ranked 34,422^nd in the world and 169^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Populations, with 14.1 billion capita.