The Federal Republic of New United Columbia is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.35 billion Columbians are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The relatively small government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Spirituality, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the District of Washington. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.5%.

The frighteningly efficient New United Columbian economy, worth 125 trillion Gold Certificates a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 92,887 Gold Certificates, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 308,649 per year while the poor average 20,846, a ratio of 14.8 to 1.

Supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets, factory workers offered 20-hour shifts are expected to thank their bosses for the wonderful opportunity, students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, and fiscal policy hawks decry the sizable "panem et circenses" fund added to the public budget. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New United Columbia's national animal is the Wolverine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New United Columbia is ranked 101,599^th in the world and 28^th in Civiles Conservare for Safest, scoring 81.98 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.