The Spanish Kingdom of New Provenance is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Cayetana Alvarez de Toledo with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.46 billion New Provenants are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Madrid. The average income tax rate is 64.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong New Provenant economy, worth 107 trillion Provenant marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,388 Provenant marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice, large areas of New Provenance are not accessible by the public, international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses, and the nation is relieved that all of the recent madness has finally come to an end. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Provenance's national animal is the bull, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Provenance is ranked 215,011^th in the world and 232^nd in Commonwealth of Liberty for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 22.6 on the Bus Surprisal Index.