The Eternal Radiance of Cretox State is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Kendall Wispa-Kiive with a fair hand, and remarkable for its prohibition of alcohol, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.513 billion Statans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ponziopolis. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient State economy, worth a remarkable 1,808 trillion shiny green things a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an amazing 212,396 shiny green things, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, vast amounts of energy are expended moving water to hilltop lakes, revolutionaries only deal in CyanCatCoin, and people with dyslexia are told to tough through it. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cretox State's national animal is the bribe, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Nepotism.

Cretox State is ranked 9,675^th in the world and 111^th in The East Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 212,396.96 Standard Monetary Units.