The Principality of Common13 is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Sander Oosterom with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 9.486 billion Common13ians are prohibited from doing almost everything but make sure no one in government gets away with anything either.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Amsterdam. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Common13ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,222 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 128,849 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, turning the other cheek is accompanied by a polite letter of complaint, army doctors who come under attack defend themselves by using stethoscopes like nunchaku, and left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Common13's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Agnostics.

Common13 is ranked 242,324^th in the world and 11^th in Common Storage for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 28.44 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.