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The Kingdom of Newbergs is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 13.286 billion Newbergsians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The thriving Newbergsian economy, worth 851 trillion New Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Basket Weaving, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 64,083 New Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 217,624 per year while the poor average 13,922, a ratio of 15.6 to 1.

Elections have been outlawed, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Newbergs's national animal is the New Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Newbergs is ranked 128,702^nd in the world and 14^th in The waiting room of matheo for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.