The Republic of Consul145 is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate population of 326 million Consul145ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.1%.

The strong Consul145ian economy, worth 20.1 trillion kronor 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 Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Retail. 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 61,772 kronor, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 187,099 per year while the poor average 15,865, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts, clergy who start talking about politics are forced to take a holy vow of silence, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, and male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Consul145's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Consul145 is ranked 87,617^th in the world and 76^th in Lower Llobregat for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,105.8 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.