The Royaume de Nettoyage of Purgatio is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Magnificus-Dominus De La Fayette with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, flagrant waste-dumping, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.673 billion Purgations 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ravaliér. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Purgation economy, worth a remarkable 1,305 trillion Élites a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 279,434 Élites, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,579,358 per year while the poor average 3,001, a ratio of 859 to 1.

It's often raining men (hallelujah) in Ravaliér, playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel, there's a mortuary next to every Purgation restaurant, and citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purgatio's national animal is the Viper, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mandatum Est.

Purgatio is ranked 8,873^rd in the world and 162^nd in Europe for Most Developed, scoring 90.52 on the Human Development Index.