The People's Republic of Novosoviya is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 355 million Novosoviyans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Novosoviyan economy, worth 12.7 trillion Soviks 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration and Cheese Exports. Average income is 35,710 Soviks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government funds large training centres to turn Novosovian Snowlions into functioning members of society, internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens, treason is relative, and the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Novosoviya's national animal is the Novosovian Snowlion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Novosoviya is ranked 200,494^th in the world and 993^rd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 46.38 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.