The Republic of Nova Tero is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, digital currency, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.527 billion Nova Teruloj are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Terulo economy, worth 170 trillion valutoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 111,728 valutoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs, and the new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies. Crime is totally unknown. Nova Tero's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Nova Tero is ranked 214,148^th in the world and 10^th in Nova Universo for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -5.48 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.