The Republic of New Aldersgate is a small, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 26 million New Aldersgateans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 38.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fair New Aldersgatean economy, worth 883 billion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,966 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records, and diaper sales are up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Aldersgate's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Aldersgate is ranked 282,474^th in the world and 266^th in 10000 Islands for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 20,957.39 Standard Monetary Units.