The Rising Stars of New Matzeratia is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, pith helmet sales, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.956 billion Matzeratians 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Riverburg. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Matzeratian economy, worth 291 trillion Matzeratian Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 148,776 Matzeratian Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons, supervisors in New Matzeratia commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens, and the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Matzeratia's national animal is the Swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

New Matzeratia is ranked 232,269^th in the world and 4,291^st in The North Pacific for Most Authoritarian, with 446.21 milliStalins.