The City-State of Senhora dos Mares is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Matilde da Encarnação Oliveira with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.574 billion Nova-lisboetas love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Lisboa. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova-lisboeta economy, worth 950 trillion Libras a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 207,782 Libras, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities, major cities are suffering under water rationing, stolen Reuben sandwiches are met with detailed and thorough police investigations, and school guidance counselors recommend monastic vows as an alternative to higher education. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Senhora dos Mares's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Senhora dos Mares is ranked 328,439^th in the world and 240^th in Fifth Empire for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -17.88 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.