The United Communist States of Kulverint is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Friansza Milverki with aniron fisteven hand, and remarkable for its hatred of cheese. Its hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.459 billion are ruled with aniron fisteven hand by thedictatorshiploveable government, which ensures that no-oneoutside the partygets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens arerelativelyunoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this isit is because the government genuinely cares about its people,or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent,corruptgovernment stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Defence, Law & Order, and Education. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Derastüun. The average income tax rate is 100%. Private enterprise isillegalfrowned upon, but for those in the know there is aslick and highly efficient blackstrictly controlled market in Arms Manufacturing.
Traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighwaysunimportant backroads,the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Kulverint after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, the country's famous rainforests are beingbulldozed by the mining industrycarefully kept, and people regularlydisappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyedgo on holiday. Crime is totally unknown, thanks tothe all-pervasive police force andprogressive social policies in education and welfare. Kulverint's national animal is the Orca, whichteeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestationis perfectly fine, its national religion is Atheism, and its currency is the Kulverintian Pound.