The Federal Republic of New Cora is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Arnold Kartet Mell with an even hand, and notable for its digital currency, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.416 billion Corans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coraxia. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Coran economy, worth 494 trillion coraks 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 Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 144,753 coraks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most ambassadors from New Cora retire only a few years after being appointed, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, and all you have to do is pray to get into New Cora. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Cora's national animal is the panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Cora is ranked 5,357^th in the world and 264^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 547.79 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.