The People's Republic of Kuruona is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 196 million Kuruonans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 69.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Kuruonan economy, worth 4.56 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 23,250 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free, foreign leaders' Twitcher accounts are monitored for potential threats to national security, and the government loves seeing the little people fight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kuruona's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kuruona is ranked 221,457^th in the world and 4,022^nd in The North Pacific for Nudest, with 94.75 cheeks per square mile.