The Republic of The Ancient Kingdom is a very large, socially progressive nation, notable for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical population of 179 million Ancient Kingdomians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 14.1%.

The very strong Ancient Kingdomian economy, worth 8.04 trillion rubledollars a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Average income is 44,911 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 182,095 per year while the poor average 7,373, a ratio of 24.7 to 1.

Crime is a serious problem. The Ancient Kingdom's national animal is the hawk.

The Ancient Kingdom is ranked 80,296^th in the world and 923^rd in Suspicious for Highest Food Quality, scoring 26.9 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.