The Federation of The Holy Crusade is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, ubiquitous missile silos, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 553 million Gentiles 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Benedictus. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Gentile economy, worth 48.5 trillion Scudoes a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 87,626 Scudoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom, gift baskets often contain working nukes, the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights, and children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Holy Crusade's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Holy Crusade is ranked 64,259^th in the world and 1,883^rd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 118.11 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.