The People's Republic of New Kisha is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.664 billion Kishans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Kisha. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kishan economy, worth 134 trillion Aurons a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,644 Aurons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's air missiles have killed thousands of Brasilistan military personnel, elite teams of assassins have been sent into Brasilistan, the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community, and the armed forces have designated 'murder teams' that root out rebels in Brasilistan. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Kisha's national animal is the Arctic Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Kisha is ranked 40,002^nd in the world and 1,353^rd in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.