The Colony of New Charlemagne is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its closed borders, avant-garde cinema, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.059 billion New Charlemagneans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.2%.

The strong New Charlemagnean economy, worth 93.5 trillion currencies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Tourism. Average income is 88,323 currencies, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 305,102 per year while the poor average 18,699, a ratio of 16.3 to 1.

Airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room, people boast about their low income on their dating profiles, the entire entry for New Charlemagne in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', and the sun now sets on the New Charlemagnean Empire. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Charlemagne's national animal is the animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

New Charlemagne is ranked 41,019^th in the world and 19^th in Charleslandia for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 23,319.97 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.