The Many Affairs of April Dancer is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its frequent executions, smutty television, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 41.379 billion Secrete Agents are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.0%.

The all-consuming a Secrete Agent economy, worth a remarkable 5,951 trillion Euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 143,832 Euros, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 833,110 per year while the poor average 11,807, a ratio of 70.6 to 1.

Private business has started paving paradises and putting up parking lots, naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure, people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, and psychological disorders are a taboo subject. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. April Dancer's national animal is the Kitten, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

April Dancer is ranked 56,620^th in the world and 10^th in The Respected Realms for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 78.63 on the Bus Surprisal Index.