The Constitutional Monarchy of New Belia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader Harwell with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.917 billion New Belians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Belia City. The average income tax rate is 77.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Belian economy, worth a remarkable 2,030 trillion Marks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 185,960 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside, lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, and adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them. Crime is totally unknown. New Belia's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Belia is ranked 244,850^th in the world and 7,569^th in the West Pacific for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.35 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.