The State of New Airstrip One is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Big Brother with an iron fist, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.271 billion Britishes 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.0%.

The New Airstrip Onean economy, worth 158 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 69,977 Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 237,788 per year while the poor average 15,187, a ratio of 15.7 to 1.

The nation's taxpayers pay for foreign governments' extravagances, graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance, and the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Airstrip One's national animal is the Person, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

New Airstrip One is ranked 126,669^th in the world and 113^th in Karma for Most Developed, scoring 57.75 on the Human Development Index.