The Democratic People's Republic of New Goguryeo is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by God-Emperor Kim Byeong-Ho with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, rampant corporate plagiarism, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.374 billion Koreans, 8.055 billion of whom are zombies, are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyongyang. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Korean economy, worth a remarkable 7,900 trillion Won a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is an amazing 442,656 Won, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence, distant and obscure male relatives succeed to the Korean throne, trade deals are born to the sound of a royal woman's anguished screams, and rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Goguryeo's national animal is the Giant Panda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Korean Imperial Cult.

New Goguryeo is ranked 5,984^th in the world and 171^st in the Rejected Realms for Most Authoritarian, with 6,697.25 milliStalins.