The Protectorate of Reporter is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Reporter with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.202 billion Reporterians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Philosophers. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Reporterian economy, worth 528 trillion pebbles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is 85,200 pebbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt, sex changes are routinely performed at Reporter's hospitals, libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars, and cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Reporter's national animal is the lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanism.

Reporter is ranked 279,095^th in the world and 160^th in Philosophers for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -11.22 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.