The Empire of NEW HIMALYA is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 293 million NEW HIMALYAians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 50.7%.

The thriving NEW HIMALYAian economy, worth 21.5 trillion Rangs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 73,365 Rangs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Workers have their fruitcake and eat it too, military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames, country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized, and confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NEW HIMALYA's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

NEW HIMALYA is ranked 264,204^th in the world and 726^th in Carcassonne for Most Beautiful Environments, with 131 pounds of wildlife per square mile.