The Independent Territory of Nova Rhodia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Amiya Theresia with an even hand, and remarkable for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.516 billion Nova Rhodians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rhodes Island. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Rhodian economy, worth 686 trillion rhodes dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 195,270 rhodes dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sharing vacation pictures requires written consent from the entire beach resort, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose, and bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins. Crime is totally unknown. Nova Rhodia's national animal is the originium slug, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sapphism.

Nova Rhodia is ranked 2,862^nd in the world and 70^th in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 66.15 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.