The Republic of New-Erie is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, triple-decker prams, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 824 million New-Erieans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cork. The average income tax rate is 48.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient New-Eriean economy, worth 39.5 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 47,984 francs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters, and polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New-Erie's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New-Erie is ranked 115,581^st in the world and 102^nd in Covenant Shores for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,647.74 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.