The Community of New Gaea is a large, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 108 million New Gaeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish New Gaean economy, worth 2.75 trillion points 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 Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 25,462 points, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

New Gaea recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace, you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, the mouth-frothing New Gaean can be confused for a rabid Common Grackle, and graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Gaea's national animal is the Common Grackle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Gaea is ranked 321,334^th in the world and 1^st in The Empire of Enlightenment for Largest Black Market, with 2.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.