The Federation of Nieuw Luxemburg is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.799 billion Nieuw Luxemburgians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Nieuw Luxemburgian economy, worth 251 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 139,879 Euros, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 445,614 per year while the poor average 33,403, a ratio of 13.3 to 1.

Inheritance tax has recently been abolished, in a baffling press conference Leader proudly dismantled a broken door, nations that kill a Nieuw Luxemburgian can expect a strongly worded letter, and years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Nieuw Luxemburg's national animal is the swan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Nieuw Luxemburg is ranked 73,481^st in the world and 27^th in Carcassonne for Largest Black Market, with 6.09 trillion Standard Monetary Units.