The Queen's State of Cremator is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 32.106 billion Crematorians 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 tiny, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Law & Order, with Industry and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.6%.

The very strong Crematorian economy, worth a remarkable 1,157 trillion betales a year, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is 36,037 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 245,013 per year while the poor average 1,936, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, all tariffs have been abolished, Cremator has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and the Governor has just been declared ruler of Cremator in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem. Cremator's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cremator is ranked 306,278^th in the world and 1^st in Worldwide for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -7.75 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.