The Ritual of New Octicarg is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Papa Emeritus IV with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.077 billion New Octicargians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Achtimont. The average income tax rate is 85.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Octicargian economy, worth 285 trillion galleons 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 137,527 galleons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, transgender and agender are on the education agenda, the nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens, and ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter New Octicargian pirates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Octicarg's national animal is the octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Synod of Singularity.

New Octicarg is ranked 163,799^th in the world and 8,044^th in The North Pacific for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.69 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.