The Royaume du Nettoyage of Purgatio is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Magnificus-Dominus De La Fayette with an iron fist, and renowned for its digital currency, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.664 billion Purgations are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ravaliér. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Purgation economy, worth a remarkable 2,092 trillion Élites a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 241,536 Élites, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,232,989 per year while the poor average 2,549, a ratio of 876 to 1.

Titles of nobility are packaged with Purgation citizenship in invite-only auctions, the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing, bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls, and patriots insist that size does matter. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purgatio's national animal is the Viper, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mandatum Est.

Purgatio is ranked 1,157^th in the world and 7^th in Europe for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring 249.93 on the Hayek Index.