The Republic of Improving Agents is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its closed borders, ritual sacrifices, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.575 billion Improving Agentsians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.3%.

The all-consuming Improving Agentsian economy, worth 229 trillion Currencies 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 89,043 Currencies, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 377,026 per year while the poor average 13,585, a ratio of 27.8 to 1.

Improving Agents successfully hosted the Lazarus Olympics, gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal, a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career, and weathermen are being arrested for attempting to read the future. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Improving Agents's national animal is the Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Improving Agents is ranked 210,071^st in the world and 8,269^th in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 33.86 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.