The Free Land of Crysalia is a colossal, orderly nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.363 billion Crysalians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The enormous, liberal government prioritizes Healthcare, with Environment, Education, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Administration receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Emerald City. The average income tax rate is 68.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Crysalian economy, worth 215 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 40,264 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The constant playing of Merry Birthday on Crysalian radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, and ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crysalia's national animal is the Koala, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Crysalia is ranked 264,673^rd in the world and 6,468^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Armed, with 0.17 weapons per person.