The Dominion of Crystal Palais is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Michael Lucerne with an even hand, and renowned for its unlimited-speed roads, hatred of cheese, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless population of 35.189 billion Crystal Palaisians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mare Crisium. The average income tax rate is 1.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Crystal Palaisian economy, worth an astonishing 11,739 trillion solaris a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 333,625 solaris, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, the nation is automatically assumed to be the source of all unmarked weapons, Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to Crystal Palais as a reminder of their "special relationship", and body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms. Crime is totally unknown. Crystal Palais's national animal is the mantlion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Crystal Palais is ranked 4,008^th in the world and 2^nd in The Heartland for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 592,553.53 Standard Monetary Units.