The People's Republic of Nouvelle-Zeland is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chancellor Esmee Champagne with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.132 billion Nouvelle-Zelandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Le Havre. The average income tax rate is 85.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Nouvelle-Zelandian economy, worth 346 trillion Florins 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 110,682 Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, and mandatory updates on software drivers often bring life to a halt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nouvelle-Zeland's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Nouvelle-Zeland is ranked 8,224^th in the world and 15^th in Carcassonne for Safest, scoring 123.67 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.