The United Socialist States of New Costa is a small, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 32 million New Costans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case New Costan economy, worth 564 billion Colóns a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 17,630 Colóns, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence, society is now confronted with the problem of the mage gap, and geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Costa's national animal is the sloth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Costa is ranked 46,375^th in the world and 926^th in the South Pacific for Least Corrupt Governments, with 93.88 percentage of bribes refused.