The Emirate of New Ezden is a huge, pleasant nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, complete lack of prisons, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 856 million New Ezdenians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 20.9%.

The strong New Ezdenian economy, worth 36.5 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 42,624 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

War criminals are given full state funerals, people make a career out of medical voyeurism, coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops, and tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. New Ezden's national animal is the lion.

New Ezden is ranked 178,049^th in the world and 116^th in Puppets resting area for Highest Food Quality, scoring 13.41 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.