The Republic of Honor Guard Nouveauterra is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its burgeoning cow population. The hard-working population of 707 million Honor Guard Nouveauterrans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 26.3%.

The very strong Honor Guard Nouveauterran economy, worth 33.6 trillion marks a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 47,484 marks, with the richest citizens earning 9.6 times as much as the poorest.

Artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings, the song 'They Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Honor Guard Nouveauterra' is a smash hit, anyone interested in the stock market is investigated, and war criminals are given full state funerals. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Honor Guard Nouveauterra's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Honor Guard Nouveauterra is ranked 97,011^th in the world and 103^rd in Empire of Love for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 50.5 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.