The Kingdom of New-Normandy is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its parental licensing program, pith helmet sales, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 416 million Novo-Normans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Montréal. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.3%.

The all-consuming Norman economy, worth 48.2 trillion Piastres a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 115,791 Piastres, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Pocket dialling is a criminal offence, people who have lived their entire lives in New-Normandy are shocked to discover that they are not citizens, the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition, and there's a bright dawn ahead for New-Normandy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New-Normandy's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New-Normandy is ranked 196,528^th in the world and 10^th in The Great Monarchical Nations for Most Primitive, scoring -73.04 on the Scary Big Number Scale.