The United States of New Era state is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by His Excellence Single D Superior with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 3.753 billion New Era stateans are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paradise city. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Era statean economy, worth 545 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 145,264 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cops shout apologies with every swing of their baton, hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes, and anti-government web sites are springing up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Era state's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Christianity.

New Era state is ranked 19,736^th in the world and 44^th in Aesica for Most Cultured, scoring 88 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.