The Protectorate of Reporter is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Reporter with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, conspicuous electricity pylons, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.327 billion Reporterians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Philosophers. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Reporterian economy, worth a remarkable 1,213 trillion pebbles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 107,097 pebbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government election advice reads like a restaurant menu, structures are raised on promises, dictators have dubbed Reporter the land of lunatics, and Scrabble champions have been left scrambling for scraps. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Reporter's national animal is the lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Humanism.

Reporter is ranked 32,497^th in the world and 18^th in Philosophers for Most Developed, scoring 81.99 on the Human Development Index.