The Queendom of Code098 is a mammoth, orderly nation, renowned for its digital currency, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 9.135 billion Code098ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 39.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Code098ian economy, worth 303 trillion yen a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,191 yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, more and more students are taking up a career in medicine, and politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Code098's national animal is the Klaxosaur, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Code098 is ranked 267,814^th in the world and 27^th in thundria for Most Cultured, scoring 60 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.