The Confederacy of Nova Bacon is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Skybacon with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, avowedly heterosexual populace, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.889 billion Nova Baconians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Nova Baconian economy, worth a remarkable 1,088 trillion bacons 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. 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 99,935 bacons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists, Nova Baconians believe manners maketh the leader, the government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore, and in court almost every witness is a hostile witness. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nova Bacon's national animal is the Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the great pig.

Nova Bacon is ranked 29,815^th in the world and 1,895^th in Osiris for Lowest Crime Rates, with 82.83 law-abiding acts per hour.