The Holy Empire of The Templar Papal New State is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Augustus XVII with an iron fist, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical, devout population of 8.308 billion Papal Stateans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roma. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Templar Papal New Statean economy, worth a remarkable 1,452 trillion Papal Lire a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 174,792 Papal Lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, contestants on The Templar Papal New State's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, the government loves seeing the little people fight, and Templar Papal New Statean tourists are banned from many nations due to their tendency to randomly explode. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Templar Papal New State's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

The Templar Papal New State is ranked 16,482^nd in the world and 259^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 312.26 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.