The United Rebuilt Republic of New Highermoon is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Legislative dockmaster with a fair hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.457 billion Highermoonians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wayward Summit. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Highermoonian economy, worth 168 trillion tall crowns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 115,395 tall crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys', RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, and the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Highermoon's national animal is the Grey wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Unified Diverse Church.

New Highermoon is ranked 2,262^nd in the world and 1^st in The Allied Northern Archipeligo for Least Corrupt Governments, with 96.32 percentage of bribes refused.