The Independent Territory of Nova Rhodia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Amiya Theresia with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory vegetarianism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.462 billion Nova Rhodians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rhodes Island. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Rhodian economy, worth 679 trillion rhodes dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 196,137 rhodes dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic, the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries, and the Rhodes Island Women's Prison Choir now has a baritone section. Crime is totally unknown. Nova Rhodia's national animal is the originium slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sapphism.

Nova Rhodia is ranked 285,547^th in the world and 5,333^rd in the South Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -15.36 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.