The Principality of Neo Populus is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 842 million Populites 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Denson. The average income tax rate is 67.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Neo Populusian economy, worth 73.5 trillion Pops a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,260 Pops, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by, national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first, and mechanics are often exhausted by their work. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Neo Populus's national animal is the Sunfish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Neo Populus is ranked 51,764^th in the world and 1,083^rd in The North Pacific for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 67.75 Effective Tax Rate.