The Republic of Newer Lunar is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Nightmare Moon with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, avowedly heterosexual populace, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 6.781 billion Newer Lunarians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Luna Bay. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Newer Lunarian economy, worth 531 trillion Bits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,433 Bits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 414,473 per year while the poor average 7,882, a ratio of 52.6 to 1.

Students who refuse to pray are expelled from school, tough diplomacy is often best handled with a nutcracker, the nation's peacekeeping efforts usually come with a healthy dose of pillaging, and convicted conmen and fraudsters often leave prison to enter a career in politics. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force. Newer Lunar's national animal is the Batpony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Lunarism.

Newer Lunar is ranked 156,579^th in the world and 1^st in Wonderbolts for Lowest Crime Rates, with 60.46 law-abiding acts per hour.