The Technocratic Vanguard of Nouvelle-Floride is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, flagrant waste-dumping, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed population of 1.983 billion Florideans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint-Barthélemy. The average income tax rate is 16.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nouvelle-Floridean economy, worth 399 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 201,421 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, an endless multinational bureaucracy connects the Red Bloc, and motorway service stations often have a higher population than the hinterland villages that the roads lead to. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nouvelle-Floride's national animal is the Flamingo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is State Atheism.

Nouvelle-Floride is ranked 240,418^th in the world and 4^th in Florida Man Puppet Fiefdom for Most Popular Tourist Destinations, with 8 Tourists Per Hour.