The Federation of New Vrelonda is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 270 million New Vrelondans 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stembov. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish New Vrelondan economy, worth 8.97 trillion Dollars 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 mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration. Average income is 33,236 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New Vrelonda has designated Stembov as its capital city, the citizenship exam requires years of study to actually pass, the nation is automatically assumed to be the source of all unmarked weapons, and the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Vrelonda's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Vrelonda is ranked 150,525^th in the world and 1,904^th in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 425.45 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.