The Dictatorship of New Banana is a mid-sized, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 56 million New Bananans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 39.9%.

The strong New Bananan economy, worth 2.80 trillion Monkey Monies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 50,006 Monkey Monies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts, 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail, sweet-toothed New Bananans have been left penniless by the VAT on candy, and it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Banana's national animal is the Capybara, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

New Banana is ranked 228,946^th in the world and 14^th in True Duck people for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 29.64 on the Bus Surprisal Index.