The United Socialist States of Nieuw Belgium is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its closed borders, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 389 million Nieuw Belgians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Nieuw Belgiumian economy, worth 6.78 trillion Belgian francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry. Average income is 17,434 Belgian francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other, pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits, mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them, and the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nieuw Belgium's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nieuw Belgium is ranked 24,664^th in the world and 161^st in Europe for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 5,980.83 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.