The Federal Republic of Nova Ecloinia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Sofia Pembroke with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory vegetarianism, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, humorless population of 3.634 billion Nova Ecloinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nidus De Opulentia. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Ecloinian economy, worth 670 trillion Numuses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 184,543 Numuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, all industry is owned and run by the government, soldiers are "encouraged" to advance by armed officers behind them, and retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nova Ecloinia's national animal is the Griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Nova Ecloinia is ranked 153,886^th in the world and 3,532^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 119 billion Standard Monetary Units.