The Kingdom of New Newville is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 310 million New Newvillans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient New Newvillean economy, worth 14.9 trillion SpacePesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 48,015 SpacePesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New Newvillean scientists are mixing chewing tobacco with bacon flavouring in an attempt to craft the perfect male snack, asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before, retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals, and major internet servers have acquired citizenship. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Newville's national animal is the Cougar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Newville is ranked 22,501^st in the world and 547^th in The East Pacific for Safest, scoring 112.75 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.