The Ran Yakumo of New Massachusett is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by David Michael with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.597 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Springfield MA. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong New Massachusettian economy, worth 233 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 89,975 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 281,694^th in the world and 6,713^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -11.58 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.