The Most Serene Jarldom of United Provinces of Atlantica is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Allsherjargoði Matteus Gunnlaugsson with an even hand, and renowned for its national health service, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 22.338 billion Atlanticans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Social Policy, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stórkostlegurborg. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Atlantican economy, worth a remarkable 5,974 trillion Krónas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 267,477 Krónas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that United Provinces of Atlantica will pay them to stop, and every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains. Crime is totally unknown. United Provinces of Atlantica's national animal is the Brown bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Norse paganism.

United Provinces of Atlantica is ranked 201^st in the world and 1^st in Aurelia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 105.72 Effective Tax Rate.