The Free Land of New NVegas is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 347 million New NVegasians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New NVegas. The average income tax rate is 13.1%.

The frighteningly efficient New NVegasian economy, worth 44.9 trillion Caps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 129,353 Caps, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Hordes of faceless civil servants are running cities, police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, genetic researchers have taken to conducting illegal experiments in secret lairs, and rabbits are known to spontaneously explode without warning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. New NVegas's national animal is the Bruhmin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

New NVegas is ranked 21,949^th in the world and 869^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 265.8 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.