The Unitary Socialist Republic of New Reventeur is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by President Francois Chevrantes with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, anti-smoking policies, and feral children. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.328 billion Reventeurans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Reventeur City. The average income tax rate is 63.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Reventeuran economy, worth 320 trillion Reventeuran Chronuses a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Woodchip Exports, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 96,214 Reventeuran Chronuses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Golden statues of Reventeuran Red Spotted Wolves line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District, lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences", many in New Reventeur are born in the purple, and citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. New Reventeur's national animal is the Reventeuran Red Spotted Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

New Reventeur is ranked 276,313^th in the world and 10,141^st in Lazarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 33.85 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.