The Honourable Principality of Novanuki is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by His Royal Highness Sevastian A Legano IX with an iron fist, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 7.491 billion Novagasques are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amrasa. The average income tax rate is 51.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Novagasque economy, worth a remarkable 1,080 trillion Novagasque Mark or Roman Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 144,264 Novagasque Mark or Roman Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

You need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, foreign leaders are advising that His Royal Highness Sevastian A Legano IX's letters must have gotten lost in the mail, a surprising number of travelers carry their water in vodka bottles, and failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Novanuki's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Novanuki is ranked 19,750^th in the world and 9^th in The Eternal Order for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.93 law-abiding acts per hour.