The Commonwealth of Research Scientists is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The hard-working, cynical population of 588 million Research Scientists have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Jobs that are not customer service City. The average income tax rate is 19.8%.

The strong Research Scientist economy, worth 39.1 trillion $ via jobs that are not customer services a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Tourism. Average income is 66,418 $ via jobs that are not customer services, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

The intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, government leaders testify at international tribunals on why the sun went out, undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, and planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color". Crime is relatively low. Research Scientists's national animal is the human resources generalist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Research Scientists is ranked 25,877^th in the world and 1^st in jobs that are not customer service for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,840.78 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.