The Commonwealth of New Pucklandia is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 960 million New Pucklandians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coilberg. The average income tax rate is 78.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse New Pucklandian economy, worth 95.3 trillion waning rifts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 99,319 waning rifts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Leader on New Pucklandia's coulrophobia epidemic, laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, and the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Pucklandia's national animal is the fairy dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

New Pucklandia is ranked 236,740^th in the world and 4,898^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Mining Sector, scoring -2.83 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.