The Kingdom of Sern New is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.881 billion Sern Newians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 80.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sern Newian economy, worth 680 trillion Memes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is 98,960 Memes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, feeling like a winner comes at a price, most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists, and national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sern New's national animal is the Hedgehog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sern New is ranked 61,574^th in the world and 3,467^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,172.72 on the Gilded Widget Scale.