The Community of New Gaea is a large, genial nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 198 million New Gaeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 76.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient New Gaean economy, worth 9.50 trillion points 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 Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 47,986 points, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A century of peace does not preclude peace negotiations, billions of points are being poured into a space program, foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies, and a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Gaea's national animal is the Common Grackle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Gaea is ranked 186,193^rd in the world and 1^st in The Empire of Enlightenment for Highest Average Incomes, with 47,986.86 Standard Monetary Units.