The Republic of Curative Agent 30 is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.488 billion Curative Agent 30ians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 42.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Curative Agent 30ian economy, worth 78.3 trillion Credits a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,619 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers, lending money has become a major liability, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, and liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Curative Agent 30's national animal is the Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Curative Agent 30 is ranked 270,254^th in the world and 310^th in Blue Chevron for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -4.82 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.