The Colony of New Porcus is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 672 million New Porcusians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong New Porcusian economy, worth 46.9 trillion hocks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is 69,786 hocks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People can get away with murder these days, ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter New Porcusian pirates, being Leader has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, and cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Porcus's national animal is the piggy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Porcus is ranked 23,952^nd in the world and 3^rd in Beef for Most Cultured, scoring 84 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.