The Colony of New Rylland is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, zero percent divorce rate, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 624 million Ryllandics are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 46.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Ryllandic economy, worth 43.7 trillion Heiliger Schwan Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,086 Heiliger Schwan Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of New Rylland, government projects are full of waste, Leader has incinerated the international climate treaty in a public coal-burning ceremony, and saying 'Hi Guys' to a mixed gender group of people at work is a fireable offense. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Rylland's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

New Rylland is ranked 94,437^th in the world and 24^th in Puppet Storage of Rylland for Most Authoritarian, with 978.78 milliStalins.