The Holy Empire of The Templar Papal New State is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Augustus XVII with an iron fist, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, national health service, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.37 billion Papal New Stateans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roma. The average income tax rate is 80.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Templar Papal New Statean economy, worth 157 trillion Papal Lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 115,183 Papal Lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Interest in globalism never flags, the government denies that it has an agency overseeing plausible deniability of black-ops agencies, untold millions of Papal Lire are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, and gun-wielding criminals always wear appropriate eye and ear protection. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Templar Papal New State's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christian.

The Templar Papal New State is ranked 177,264^th in the world and 703^rd in Europe for Largest Black Market, with 56.3 billion Standard Monetary Units.