The Republic of New Nanyang is a small, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 26 million New Nanyangians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 51.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The New Nanyangian economy, worth 1.39 trillion Nanyang dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,289 Nanyang dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Neighboring nations are tired of New Nanyang's big fish stories, the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution, fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal, and future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Nanyang's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Nanyang is ranked 81,616^th in the world and 2,326^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.