The Rogue Nation of MSN43 is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Kortej with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, ritual sacrifices, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.902 billion MSN43ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Golgothaj. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.7%.

The frighteningly efficient MSN43ian economy, worth 451 trillion rubles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,459 rubles, with the richest citizens earning 8.6 times as much as the poorest.

Diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies, Golgothaj's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, and among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. MSN43's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Cards.

MSN43 is ranked 31,852^nd in the world and 425^th in the Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,477.04 on the Gilded Widget Scale.