The Serene Commonwealth of New Bubastis is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Meredith Bastet with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 5.648 billion New Bubastites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal 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 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Bubastian economy, worth 736 trillion talents a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,413 talents, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The space program has been scrapped in order to focus on more terrestrial pursuits, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers, and Meredith Bastet spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders. 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 309,717^th in the world and 43^rd in RGBN for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -21.7 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.