The Splendid Diarchy of Kuroluce is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by The Shapers Chromatic and Temporal with an iron fist, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, pith helmet sales, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 10.368 billion Husks and Vessels are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bruges-Reno. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Kurolucean economy, worth a remarkable 2,401 trillion Crystas 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 amazing 231,621 Crystas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens, one can wake up in Kuroluce and have breakfast in Bigtopia, the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy, and the government funds large training centres to turn Christmas Cactuses into functioning members of society. Crime is totally unknown. Kuroluce's national animal is the Christmas Cactus, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Church of the Second and Third.

Kuroluce is ranked 322,539^th in the world and 101^st in The Glorious Nations of Iwaku for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.