The Armed Republic of New Centurion is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Darth Vader with a fair hand, and remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 12.743 billion New Centurionians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Death Star. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient New Centurionian economy, worth a remarkable 8,194 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is a breathtaking 643,034 Credits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,381,997 per year while the poor average 65,263, a ratio of 51.8 to 1.

Bars are packed at all hours, statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty, military spending is on the increase, and sales of trenchcoats are on the rise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Centurion's national animal is the Mouse Droid, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

New Centurion is ranked 201^st in the world and 4^th in the South Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 22,810.98 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.