The Socialist Monarchy of Kingdom of New Berlin is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by King Karl von Hohenzollern with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.159 billion New Berliners are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Berlin. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Berlinian economy, worth 154 trillion Berliner Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 133,258 Berliner Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics, the banshee wail foretells skies of death, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Kingdom of New Berlin's national animal is the Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Kingdom of New Berlin is ranked 13,199^th in the world and 174^th in 10000 Islands for Lowest Crime Rates, with 87.82 Law-abiding Acts Per Hour.