The Empire of Nas Crustium is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by The Emperor of the Crusti with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, sprawling nuclear power plants, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.682 billion Crusti are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crusticant. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Crusti economy, worth a remarkable 5,752 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 662,522 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 6,135,661 per year while the poor average 6,853, a ratio of 895 to 1.

The government subsidises medicines of mass destruction, the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, and boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nas Crustium's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Nas Crustium is ranked 7,655^th in the world and 119^th in the West Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 12,621.14 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.