The Republic of Abslandia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Mordecai Vergoossen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, sprawling nuclear power plants, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.466 billion Abslandians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Industry and Education also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ravenholm. The average income tax rate is 88.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Abslandian economy, worth a remarkable 8,705 trillion Lire 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, 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 a breathtaking 646,448 Lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains, the new national anthem passes the Turing Test, and Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Abslandia's national animal is the Austral Penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Abslandia is ranked 254,955^th in the world and 204^th in The Western Isles for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -30 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.