The Federation of New Vrelonda is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 246 million New Vrelondans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 78.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish New Vrelondan economy, worth 7.84 trillion Dollars 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 mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration. Average income is 31,879 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks, the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, and the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Vrelonda's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Vrelonda is ranked 178,327^th in the world and 2,532^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 48.63 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.