The Federal Republic of New Cora is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Arnold Kartet Mell with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and digital currency. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.291 billion Corans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coraxia. The average income tax rate is 91.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Coran economy, worth 466 trillion coraks 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 141,729 coraks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Economic planning is exalted as a human art form, the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem", the government funds large training centres to turn panthers into functioning members of society, and 3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Cora's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Cora is ranked 7,827^th in the world and 347^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 135 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.