The Republic of Curative Agent 178 is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, zero percent divorce rate, and compulsory gun ownership. The devout population of 1.371 billion Curative Agent 178ians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 37.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Curative Agent 178ian economy, worth 48.0 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,975 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash, and wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Curative Agent 178's national animal is the Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Curative Agent 178 is ranked 119,666^th in the world and 97^th in Blue Chevron for Most Cultured, scoring 66 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.