The People's Republic of Xin Aoerliang is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, hatred of cheese, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 216 million Xin Aoerliangians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Xin Aoerliangian economy, worth 6.27 trillion Yuan a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Information Technology. Average income is 29,043 Yuan, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums, engineers are reinventing the wheel, colonial subjects have Xin Aoerliangian culture shoved down their throats, and it's rare to find an unchewed pencil. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Xin Aoerliang's national animal is the Pelican, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Xin Aoerliang is ranked 97,898^th in the world and 575^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 15.3 flags saluted per person per day.