The Independent Territory of Nova Rhodia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Amiya Theresia with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, digital currency, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.45 billion Nova Rhodians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rhodes Island. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Rhodian economy, worth 676 trillion rhodes 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 196,009 rhodes dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, populations of two-headed originium slugs have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites, voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary, and builders across Nova Rhodia are blocked up with orders for new public loos. Crime is totally unknown. Nova Rhodia's national animal is the originium slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sapphism.

Nova Rhodia is ranked 289,931^st in the world and 5,441^st in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -27.37 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.