The Kingdom of Nova-Lilos is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Karnov with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 3.186 billion Nova-Lilosians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Misto Demoniv. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Nova-Lilosian economy, worth 337 trillion novalis a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 106,037 novalis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

War memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping, civil engineers are undermining sinkholes, art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat, and it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nova-Lilos's national animal is the gryphon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Morality.

Nova-Lilos is ranked 5,296^th in the world and 8^th in Thaecia for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 8,105.77 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.