The Secret Underground Empire of Gunrage is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Field Marshal Ronald Speirs with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.809 billion Stalkers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neverwinter the Volya Prospect and Omega. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming a stalker from Gunrage economy, worth a remarkable 3,348 trillion Bullets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 116,229 Bullets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People talk about things being better when men were men, convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes, workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings, and on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gunrage's national animal is the Imperial Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Tetragrammaton.

Gunrage is ranked 14,210^th in the world and 32^nd in The Black Hawks for Lowest Crime Rates, with 95.05 law-abiding acts per hour.