The Holy Theocracy of New Salchara is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 44.699 billion New Salcharans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Spirituality, and Welfare. The income tax rate is 100%.

The enormous but stagnant New Salcharan economy, worth a remarkable 2,912 trillion Root of all Evils a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 65,149 Root of all Evils, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dark alleys and public toilets are filled with furtive sexual activities among teenagers and unmarried adults, strategic bombers are being converted into preschools, local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food", and welfare funding has recently gone through the roof. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Salchara's national animal is the red dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

New Salchara is ranked 285,505^th in the world and 13^th in PEEL for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -298.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.