The United Socialist States of Neo Colorado is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Arkle Scribe with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 26.612 billion Neo Coloradoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stilwater. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but inefficient Neo Coloradoan economy, worth a remarkable 2,651 trillion Deenihans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,651 Deenihans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, the only thing slower than the economy is the exchange where it's managed, more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people, and Arkle Scribe's reputation is hard as nails. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neo Colorado's national animal is the Hippo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Neo Colorado is ranked 253,289^th in the world and 1,937^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 165 billion Standard Monetary Units.