The Federation of New Rustonia is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.96 billion New Rustonians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aran. The average income tax rate is 72.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Rustonian economy, worth 190 trillion Shaws a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 97,418 Shaws, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, forgetting to pay your annual passport bill is a leading cause of deportations, and New Rustonia's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Rustonia's national animal is the Bulldog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Rustonia is ranked 15,999^th in the world and 27^th in Aesica for Most Cultured, scoring 95 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.