The Independent Territory of Nova Rhodia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Amiya Theresia with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.478 billion Nova Rhodians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

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 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Rhodian economy, worth 683 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 196,620 rhodes dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, a degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics, police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, and elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-rhodes dollar mansions. 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 1,933^rd in the world and 51^st in the South Pacific for Highest Food Quality, scoring 283.94 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.