The Empire of Nas Crustium is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by The Emperor of the Crusti with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, compulsory military service, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.837 billion Crusti are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crusticant. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Crusti economy, worth an astonishing 11,785 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 851,729 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 7,949,436 per year while the poor average 8,021, a ratio of 991 to 1.

Being wrong on the internet has been classified as digital terrorism, the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag, amusement park rides frequently collapse due to lack of maintenance, and blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nas Crustium's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Nas Crustium is ranked 203^rd in the world and 2^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 150,918.91 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.