The People's Republic of Cross Celtic is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 949 million Cross Celticians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 70.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Cross Celtician economy, worth 6.29 trillion Crosses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Retail and Book Publishing. Average income is 6,630 Crosses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cross Celtic has designated Cross Celtic City as its capital city, teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough, the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu, and the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cross Celtic's national animal is the Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cross Celtic is ranked 45,442^nd in the world and 513^th in The Leftist Assembly for Nicest Citizens, with 18.02 average smiles per day.