The Federal Republic of Newest leaf is a small, safe nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 45 million Newest leafians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Newest leafian economy, worth 304 billion francs 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 6,751 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Newest leaf's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Newest leaf is ranked 273,558^th in the world and 2^nd in Newleaf for Rudest Citizens, with 18.71 insults per minute.