The Constitutional Monarchy of New Belia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Leader Harwell with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 15.165 billion New Belians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Belia City. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient New Belian economy, worth a remarkable 3,193 trillion Marks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 210,558 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation, women have a strange proclivity for dressing up as caped weasels, the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet, and the comic book series 'Leader Harwell and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller. Crime is totally unknown. New Belia's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Belia is ranked 712^th in the world and 10^th in the West Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5,863.27 pounds of wildlife per square mile.