The Always Watchful of Reside is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Sergej Jakirović with an even hand, and renowned for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 6.948 billion Resideans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and look forward to their next free and open election, to be held on an as-yet unannounced date.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hull. The average income tax rate is 31.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Residean economy, worth 348 trillion Minutes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,148 Minutes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance, glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, and pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects. Crime is relatively low. Reside's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Reside is ranked 72,890^th in the world and 76^th in Carcassonne for Largest Black Market, with 5.52 trillion Standard Monetary Units.