The Queen's State of Nieuw Lucht is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons. The hard-working, cynical population of 17.237 billion Nieuw Luchtians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.0%.

The thriving Nieuw Luchtian economy, worth 522 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 30,294 betales, with the richest citizens earning 8.9 times as much as the poorest.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, elections have been outlawed, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nieuw Lucht's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Nieuw Lucht is ranked 108,515^th in the world and 4^th in Iowa for Nicest Citizens, with 13 average smiles per day.