The Independent Territory of Nova Rhodia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Amiya Theresia with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, rampant corporate plagiarism, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.964 billion Nova Rhodians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Rhodian economy, worth a remarkable 1,093 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 amazing 220,210 rhodes dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The monarch frequently needs protecting from misfiring protection, babies are a small but significant export, recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, and Amiya Theresia's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars. 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 327,298^th in the world and 4,877^th in the South Pacific for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -24.33 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.