The Socialist Democracy of New Albuquerque is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Skyler White with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 23.282 billion Albuquerqueans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Los Alamos. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient New Albuquerquean economy, worth a remarkable 3,146 trillion Dunning-Krugerrands a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 135,141 Dunning-Krugerrands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, the song 'They Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in New Albuquerque' is a smash hit, and nuclear physics is the most popular course at university. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Albuquerque's national animal is the Platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

New Albuquerque is ranked 11,835^th in the world and 284^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 374.06 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.