The Skinwalker of New Rosenreach is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Governor MacCarthy with a fair hand, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, daily referendums, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.497 billion New Rosenreachians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Rosenreach. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.1%.

The strong New Rosenreachian economy, worth 76.2 trillion Dollars a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 50,871 Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 145,908 per year while the poor average 14,109, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

The government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks, visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper, Governor MacCarthy has just been declared ruler of New Rosenreach in an international press conference, and more and more people are signing up for the government party. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Rosenreach's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Rosenreach is ranked 93,475^th in the world and 1,256^th in The East Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 17.39 flags saluted per person per day.