The Imperial Technarchy of New Apperon is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Technarch Deepwells III with an even hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, humorless population of 24.392 billion Apperonese have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ascendance. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Apperonese economy, worth a remarkable 9,643 trillion Encens 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 395,371 Encens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation, weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter', and freed serfs and former nobles exchange awkward glances in the produce aisle. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Apperon's national animal is the Platypus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Neo-Newtonianism.

New Apperon is ranked 428^th in the world and 17^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 506 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.