The Swamp Mountain of Blood Crypt- is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Mark Rosewater with an iron fist, and notable for its lack of airports, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.302 billion Blood Crypt-ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shockland. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Blood Crypt-ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,262 trillion lands a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,505 lands, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Nine-year-olds are discovering that they can grow gardens in real life too, dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies, every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts, and religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blood Crypt-'s national animal is the shock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is shocking.

Blood Crypt- is ranked 44,577^th in the world and 4^th in Eastern Roman Empire for Most Developed, scoring 78.59 on the Human Development Index.