The Socialist People's Republic of Novaya Zemlya is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Party of Labour with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless population of 26.07 billion novozemlyans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Belushya Guba. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Novozemlyan economy, worth a remarkable 6,520 trillion Polar Crowns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 250,129 Polar Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A newly discovered small mammal's name translates into Novozemlyan as 'your finger, you fool', people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Novaya Zemlya's national animal is the barnacle goose, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is nothing.

Novaya Zemlya is ranked 769^th in the world and 1^st in Arctic for Lowest Crime Rates, with 179.1 law-abiding acts per hour.