The Potato Papacy of Crushita is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Her Eminence The Potato Pope with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 20.884 billion Potatoes are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Spirituality and Law & Order are also considered important, while Education and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Potato Landia. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Potatoian economy, worth a remarkable 5,813 trillion Potatoes 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 amazing 278,391 Potatoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 805,089 per year while the poor average 76,330, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

Her Eminence The Potato Pope is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, criminals are really screwed, children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist, and red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Crushita's national animal is the Potato, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Potato Worship.

Crushita is ranked 1,662^nd in the world and 66^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 383.41 kickbacks per hour.