The First unkown of NOVA-0001 is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 11.234 billion NOVA-0001ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.1%.

The frighteningly efficient NOVA-0001ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,239 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, 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. Average income is an impressive 110,321 florins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 334,465 per year while the poor average 28,297, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

The saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work", citizens are overwhelmed by beautiful simulacra, NOVA-0001ians ask their doctors whether chili peppers are right for them, and the nation's skies are now a wasteland. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NOVA-0001's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

NOVA-0001 is ranked 59,336^th in the world and 1^st in The Nova Catalog for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 66.13 Effective Tax Rate.