The Republic of Crownly is a massive, genial nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, infamous sell-swords, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.758 billion Crownlyians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 40.6%.

The Crownlyian economy, worth 94.5 trillion papers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,771 papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, the government is spending billions of taxpayer papers to support "struggling" industries, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, and a major religion has been named as Crownly's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crownly's national animal is the crow, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Crownly is ranked 74,158^th in the world and 1^st in Orcusa for Nicest Citizens, with 15.9 average smiles per day.