The Republic of New Ruidoso is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Matty Gribble with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, avant-garde cinema, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 4.814 billion New Ruidosoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goodsprings. The average income tax rate is 79.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse New Ruidosoan economy, worth 471 trillion Bottlecaps a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,990 Bottlecaps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory, janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for, weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder, and parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Ruidoso's national animal is the Deathclaw, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Ruidoso is ranked 25,909^th in the world and 19^th in Equilism for Lowest Crime Rates, with 85.31 law-abiding acts per hour.