The Commonwealth of New Tushto is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its daily referendums, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 714 million New Tushtoans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Antananarivo. The average income tax rate is 41.6%.

The New Tushtoan economy, worth 29.7 trillion Stegs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,565 Stegs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

The government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore, in-cite-ment never happens at tea parties, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, and whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Tushto's national animal is the Ring-tailed Lemur.

New Tushto is ranked 102,882^nd in the world and 7^th in Tushto for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 850.08 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.