The Federation of Contryte is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 2.47 billion Contryteans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government prioritizes Law & Order, with Defense, Education, and Public Transport also on the agenda. The average income tax rate is 45.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Contrytean economy, worth 84.2 trillion Contches a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,084 Contches, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A government program is underway to revitalize Contryte's beaches, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, long arduous trials are held for the most trivial of offences, and reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Contryte's national animal is the Tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Contryte is ranked 118,171^st in the world and 6,118^th in Lazarus for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,036.12 on the Gilded Widget Scale.