The Ran Yakumo of New Massachusett is a massive, safe nation, ruled by David Michael with an iron fist, and renowned for its fear of technology, enslaved workforce, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.628 billion Bay Chuckers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Springfield MA. The average income tax rate is 89.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong New Massachusettian economy, worth 237 trillion hugs and cheeses 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 large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. 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 90,452 hugs and cheeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Women mime their gynaecological symptoms with hand-puppets, police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, tribal villagers hide behind the sofa when missionaries knock at their doors, and the act of reporting blasphemy is known as 'Orthodoxxing'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Massachusett's national animal is the Chickadee, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity.

New Massachusett is ranked 158,123^rd in the world and 3,087^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Populations, with 2.63 billion capita.