The Great Republic of Keventle is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by The Senate and Consul Favalo Zervas with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, flagrant waste-dumping, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 27.299 billion Keventlions are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arusage. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Keventlion economy, worth a remarkable 8,829 trillion Verneses a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 323,434 Verneses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Adjacent suburbs build competing earthworks to force the other neighbourhood to flood first, restaurants have added Molotov cocktails to the menu, scientists on maritime expeditions return with a healthy glow, and yawning is a sure sign of unemployment. Crime is relatively low. Keventle's national animal is the Lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Keventle is ranked 13,781^st in the world and 162^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 30,058.71 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.