The Republic of New Bedford Whaling NHP is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.618 billion New Bedford Whaling NHPians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Bedford Whaling NHPian economy, worth 322 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 123,181 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios, school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel, meat-eating is frowned upon, and economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Bedford Whaling NHP's national animal is the NPS, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

New Bedford Whaling NHP is ranked 54,831^st in the world and 1,319^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Patriotic, with 25.51 flags saluted per person per day.