The Colony of August Purge is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 9.062 billion August Purgeans enjoy frequent elections, which are uniformly corrupted by big-spending corporations buying politicians who best suit their interests.

The tiny, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.9%.

The thriving August Purgean economy, worth 611 trillion aurums a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Gambling. Average income is 67,532 aurums, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 224,772 per year while the poor average 15,119, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

Scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes and all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. August Purge's national animal is the bovina, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

August Purge is ranked 47,297^th in the world and 1^st in Potemkin Project for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,842.3 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.