The State of Controlador is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service and complete lack of prisons. The hard-working, cynical population of 21.593 billion Controladorians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.1%.

The thriving Controladorian economy, worth 686 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 31,811 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 93,754 per year while the poor average 8,493, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

The Governor has just been declared ruler of Controlador in an international press conference, celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and even in a one-horse town police are as common as fleas on a stray dog. Crime is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Controlador's national animal is the deer.

Controlador is ranked 91,032^nd in the world and 4^th in Yaren for Most Primitive, scoring 10 on the Scary Big Number Scale.