The Republic of Commutia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Council of Snake with a fair hand, and notable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.501 billion Commutian love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snake City. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient a Rattle Snake economy, worth 331 trillion Snek Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 132,584 Snek Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant, all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and Commutian incessantly needle their doctors for relief. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Commutia's national animal is the Rattle Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Order of The Ouroborus.

Commutia is ranked 6,662^nd in the world and 2^nd in Exsules Renascentis for Lowest Crime Rates, with 109.71 law-abiding acts per hour.