The Serene Commonwealth of New Bubastis is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Meredith Bastet with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.784 billion New Bubastites hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Primp Town. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Bubastian economy, worth 739 trillion talents 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 127,901 talents, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, the government funds large training centres to turn servals into functioning members of society, government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet, and birth rates have hit an all-time low. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. New Bubastis's national animal is the serval, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kemetism.

New Bubastis is ranked 318,694^th in the world and 41^st in RGBN for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 20.95 on the Bus Surprisal Index.