The Commonwealth of Croblade is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by President Evangeline Martin with an even hand, and remarkable for its frequent executions, soft-spoken computers, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 6.187 billion Crobladians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greenridge. The average income tax rate is 69.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Crobladian economy, worth 989 trillion Crobladian Sorloes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 159,941 Crobladian Sorloes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Graffiti is done with immaculate multi-layer shading, government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries, the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers, and exterminators swarm Crobladian homes. Crime is totally unknown. Croblade's national animal is the Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Nawhian Artorianity.

Croblade is ranked 8,396^th in the world and 35^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 456.22 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.