The Colony of Probity is a massive, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.198 billion Probityians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The relatively small, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The very strong Probityian economy, worth 71.4 trillion florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 59,615 florins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 249,265 per year while the poor average 9,293, a ratio of 26.8 to 1.

The opposition leader's credibility has been undermined by constant attention drawn to a dodgy toupee, mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem. Probity's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Probity is ranked 6,661^st in the world and 4^th in Card Slavery for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 9,485.06 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.