The Federal Republic of New United Carolinas is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Ariana Thompson with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.924 billion Carolinians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Raleigh. The average income tax rate is 57.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Carolinian economy, worth 410 trillion Panameroes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 104,723 Panameroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The new cheese tax is colloquially known as "wheel welfare", the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism, space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space, and witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New United Carolinas's national animal is the Red Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New United Carolinas is ranked 161,620^th in the world and 90^th in New West Indies for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -3.46 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.