The Red Holy Catholic Division of The New Temple Knights is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lord Knight John Peter with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, anti-smoking policies, and prohibition of alcohol. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 43.009 billion Knights of the New Temple are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Templarcardia. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong A Knight of the New Temple economy, worth a remarkable 3,328 trillion Ords a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Tourism industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,390 Ords, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bins outnumber trees in city parks, the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers, there are no more heroes any more, and public urination is on the increase. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The New Temple Knights's national animal is the Dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

The New Temple Knights is ranked 73,132^nd in the world and 2^nd in Vatican II for Most Developed, scoring 69.73 on the Human Development Index.