The People's Republic of NeoVernex is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Neodone with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, compulsory military service, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.191 billion NeoVernexians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neova. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 85.1%.

The large but inefficient NeoVernexian economy, worth 300 trillion Neos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 94,058 Neos, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 298,224 per year while the poor average 22,617, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

A serf by any other name works just as hard, school uniforms are compulsory, undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, and vacationing NeoVernexians expect to be treated as royalty. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NeoVernex's national animal is the Vernexian tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Neoism.

NeoVernex is ranked 238,452^nd in the world and 8,085^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -122.51 on the Scary Big Number Scale.