The Borderlands of New East Scandinavia is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, otherworldly petting zoo, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.797 billion Scandinavis love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anagrom Ataf. The average income tax rate is 80.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong New East Scandinavian economy, worth a remarkable 1,046 trillion Zoiks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 81,753 Zoiks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

At least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to Leader's wardrobe, the nation's nuclear defence policy is to "turn the other cheek", teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, and jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New East Scandinavia's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New East Scandinavia is ranked 95,912^th in the world and 3,393^rd in the South Pacific for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 72.67 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.