The Community of New Periapsis is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Director Nathan Emari with a fair hand, and remarkable for its otherworldly petting zoo, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.349 billion Alterrans 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 large, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Education, with Industry, Healthcare, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kelina. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse New Periapsisian economy, worth 227 trillion Credits 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 96,765 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Third world countries are rich in "I Love Kelina" t-shirts, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave, and the justice of New Periapsis is considered superior to that of other nations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Periapsis's national animal is the Crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Periapsis is ranked 149,611^th in the world and 7,693^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -6.78 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.