The Civilization of M-101 is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Compendicouncillon with an iron fist, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.916 billion Comps are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Compendium. The average income tax rate is 81.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Comps economy, worth a remarkable 1,135 trillion Chunkbytes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 192,000 Chunkbytes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Compendium University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel, signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, every week is blindness awareness week, and transgender and agender are on the education agenda. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. M-101's national animal is the Cloudoconstructoswarm, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

M-101 is ranked 222,530^th in the world and 23^rd in The Outer Rim for Most Extreme, scoring 13.19 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.