The Colony of New Staidear is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.79 billion hillfolk 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, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Staidish economy, worth 22.1 trillion Staidish Chestnuts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 12,336 Staidish Chestnuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Euthanasia is legal, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, bars are packed at all hours, and much of New Staidear's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Staidear's national animal is the raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Staidear is ranked 273,870^th in the world and 1^st in Staidear for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.81 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.