The Empire of Nas Crustium is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Emperor of the Crusti with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.82 billion Crusti 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 relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crusticant. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Crusti economy, worth an astonishing 11,771 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 851,793 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 7,949,720 per year while the poor average 8,025, a ratio of 990 to 1.

Government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive, 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song, babysitters are a thing of the past, and mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nas Crustium's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Nas Crustium is ranked 584^th in the world and 6^th in the West Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,272.11 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.