The Protectorate of New Maxta is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Vycar Darkfire with an even hand, and notable for its daily referendums, soft-spoken computers, and compulsory vegetarianism. The compassionate population of 16.619 billion New Maxtans 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 Education, Healthcare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 81.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong New Maxtan economy, worth a remarkable 1,729 trillion Maxxens 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 104,075 Maxxens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army, and the most popular WhoTube videos are ones featuring parodies of iconic songs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Maxta's national animal is the Bull Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Maxta is ranked 167,373^rd in the world and 3,056^th in the South Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 733.42 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.