The Federal Republic of Newbodies is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 431 million Newbodies enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 19.7%.

The strong Newb economy, worth 29.9 trillion Tickets a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 69,408 Tickets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

A historic rise in the minimum wage has crushed the economy with inflation, history lessons resemble a who's-who and how's-how of crime, politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional, and the Newb Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Newbodies's national animal is the Woodland vole, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Newbodies is ranked 89,326^th in the world and 1,100^th in the South Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 34,056.82 Standard Monetary Units.