The United States of New Sacred Hope is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, unlimited-speed roads, and ubiquitous missile silos. The democratic population of 739 million Neo Hopeans enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Hope City. The average income tax rate is 44.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Sacred Hopean economy, worth 94.5 trillion Silver Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 127,939 Silver Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation, 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners, visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper, and the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion. Crime is totally unknown. New Sacred Hope's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Sacred Hope is ranked 15,727^th in the world and 1^st in Kravoland for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 100 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.