The Dictatorship of Nova Rhodes is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 692 million Nova 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 government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lemoyne. The average income tax rate is 67.6%.

The thriving Nova Rhodesian economy, worth 56.5 trillion Rhodeses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 81,621 Rhodeses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Corrupt paupers spend taxpayer Rhodeses on liquor and tobacco, the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long, on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant, and the world outside is only known of in folklore. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nova Rhodes's national animal is the Saruê, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Nova Rhodes is ranked 268,428^th in the world and 562^nd in Sophia for Most Pacifist, with 20.88 cheeks turned per day.