The Concrete Sigma of Curious Observations is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 14.776 billion Curious Observationsians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Public Transport, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 15.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Curious Observationsian economy, worth 434 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 29,401 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is moderate. Curious Observations's national animal is the leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Curious Observations is ranked 172,636^th in the world and 878^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Primitive, scoring -64.03 on the Scary Big Number Scale.