The Republic of The Black Captain is a colossal, socially progressive nation, notable for its absence of drug laws and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.441 billion Black Captainians 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 Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.2%.

The very strong Black Captainian economy, worth 294 trillion rubledollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 54,125 rubledollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 280,699 per year while the poor average 5,654, a ratio of 49.6 to 1.

Crime is a problem. The Black Captain's national animal is the hawk, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

The Black Captain is ranked 245,001^st in the world and 7,906^th in Suspicious for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 107.33 on the Gilded Widget Scale.