The Kingdom of San Verucia is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 4.169 billion San Verucians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nuevo Rivas. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.9%.

The all-consuming San Verucian economy, worth 258 trillion San Verucian Sols a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 62,074 San Verucian Sols, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 234,621 per year while the poor average 11,426, a ratio of 20.5 to 1.

Small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants, citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys, the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed, and Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. San Verucia's national animal is the Jaguar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicsm.

San Verucia is ranked 262,034^th in the world and 10,777^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 44.56 law-abiding acts per hour.