The Purgatory of Snub is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The High Counsel with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.998 billion snubians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of dystopiantopia. The average income tax rate is 88.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Snubian economy, worth 152 trillion currencies a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 76,306 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve, failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside, engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?", and members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Snub's national animal is the snub dishpenoid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is escapism.

Snub is ranked 147,182^nd in the world and 50^th in magnae portas for Most Extreme, scoring 19.3 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.