The United Socialist States of New Vonderland is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by General Secretary Santorska with an iron fist, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, ban on automobiles, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 775 million Vonderlandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Windsreach. The average income tax rate is 81.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient New Vonderlandian economy, worth 30.0 trillion Pezzes 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 led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Tourism. Average income is 38,709 Pezzes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, General Secretary Santorska has just been declared ruler of New Vonderland in an international press conference, the central government is trying to keep things flowing, and General Secretary Santorska is too busy listening to praise to get any work done. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Vonderland's national animal is the Sky Bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Vonderland is ranked 134,364^th in the world and 1^st in The United Socialists Republics for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 1,604.65 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.