The Independent Territory of Nova Rhodia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Amiya Theresia with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 3.382 billion Nova Rhodians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

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 Rhodes Island. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Rhodian economy, worth 656 trillion rhodes 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 193,986 rhodes dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough, and citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers. Crime is totally unknown. Nova Rhodia's national animal is the originium slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sapphism.

Nova Rhodia is ranked 6,881^st in the world and 160^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 108.93 law-abiding acts per hour.