The Evil Green Dictatorship of New Beetle is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by leader with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, avowedly heterosexual populace, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.705 billion New Beetleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fleetwood. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The large but underdeveloped New Beetlean economy, worth 447 trillion new beetle dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 95,125 new beetle dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

Shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations, insurance companies charge extortionate premiums to cover homes near waterways, war criminals are given full state funerals, and ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Beetle's national animal is the vampire, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Leader Worshipping.

New Beetle is ranked 287,420^th in the world and 11,145^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 4.26 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.