The National Collectivity of Polre is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Administrator Corthins with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.662 billion Polreans 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Starchia. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Polrean economy, worth 287 trillion Polroes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 172,809 Polroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Contestants on Polre's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent, travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, and Polrean husbands are dead good at fathering kids. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Polre's national animal is the Animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Polrean Christianity.

Polre is ranked 7,595^th in the world and 142^nd in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 473.35 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.