The Grand Commonwealth of New Resilience is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Premier David Sveinsson with a fair hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, infamous sell-swords, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.62 billion New Resiliencers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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 Þyrstead. The average income tax rate is 86.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving New Resiliencer economy, worth 150 trillion Sovereigns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,865 Sovereigns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses are required to round down their profits, political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Resilience's national animal is the Chinchilla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ásatrú.

New Resilience is ranked 299,506^th in the world and 85^th in The Union of Democratic States for Fattest Citizens, with 4.69 Obesity Rate.