The Republic NOT so Democratic of Nova Rhodes is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Marshal Drax with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, hatred of cheese, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.676 billion Rhodesians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Administration, with Industry, Healthcare, and Public Transport also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Draxland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 79.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Nova Rhodesian economy, worth 339 trillion DRAXES a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 127,012 DRAXES, with the richest citizens earning 8.1 times as much as the poorest.

Only senior nuclear power plant employees may use the control rods to warm up their lunches, mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation, ads no longer feature soldiers becoming green super soldiers by drinking Eckie-Cola, and the dearly departed are remembered with a good meal. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nova Rhodes's national animal is the White Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Order.

Nova Rhodes is ranked 301,140^th in the world and 87^th in Union of Allied States for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -12.8 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.