The Grand Duchy of The Serpent Tail is a very large, orderly nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 210 million Serpent Tailians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Serpent Tailian economy, worth 19.8 trillion Dong a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 94,496 Dong, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 378,550 per year while the poor average 15,827, a ratio of 23.9 to 1.

The banhammer is a standard police sidearm, there have been reports of people marrying housepets, most farmers are indentured to agrochemical conglomerates, and shelters struggle to keep up with the endless intake of stray animals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Serpent Tail's national animal is the Puff Adder, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Serpent Tail is ranked 55,990^th in the world and 3^rd in The Grand Council of the Beard for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 4,401.86 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.