The People's Republic of New Nont Randris is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Pierce Inverarity with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.217 billion New Nont Randrisians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Narciso. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient New Nont Randrisian economy, worth 414 trillion marks 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Retail. Average income is an impressive 128,924 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are sent to either religious or secular schools, kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll, kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun", and museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin. Crime is totally unknown. New Nont Randris's national animal is the elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Existential Nihilism.

New Nont Randris is ranked 32,359^th in the world and 167^th in Europeia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 81.51 law-abiding acts per hour.