The United Socialist States of Crustand is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, pith helmet sales, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 986 million Crustandians 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 enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.2%.

The powerhouse Crustandian economy, worth 145 trillion cubits 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, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. 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 an impressive 147,066 cubits, with the richest citizens earning 9.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites, voting is compulsory, and colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crustand's national animal is the dinosaur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Crustand is ranked 236,136^th in the world and 488^th in The Leftist Assembly for Least Corrupt Governments, with 30.37 Percentage Of Bribes Refused.