The Republic of Free New Courialf is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.466 billion Free New Courialfians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Danville. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.3%.

The strong Free New Courialfian economy, worth 154 trillion guilders 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. Average income is 62,591 guilders, with the richest citizens earning 5.9 times as much as the poorest.

Refugees from other nations are flocking to Free New Courialf's border, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, Leader has just been declared ruler of Free New Courialf in an international press conference, and every week is blindness awareness week. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Free New Courialf's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Free New Courialf is ranked 319,647^th in the world and 3,276^th in the Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -12.08 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.