The Republic of New Zephyra is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 320 million Kiwis have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Devonport. The average income tax rate is 48.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving New Zephyran economy, worth 29.2 trillion Pēkes a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 91,201 Pēkes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, and torture is illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Zephyra's national animal is the Moa, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Zephyra is ranked 259,200^th in the world and 208^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Primitive, scoring -131.87 on the Scary Big Number Scale.