The Commonwealth of Kontio is a massive, cultured nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 4.066 billion Kontioans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Joenburg. The average income tax rate is 40.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Kontioan economy, worth 149 trillion puuths 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Basket Weaving, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 36,734 puuths, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines, a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order, and the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kontio's national animal is the flying squirrel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Kontio is ranked 85,492^nd in the world and 56^th in Coalition of Crown Albatross for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 94.34 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.