The Borderlands of Cretacea is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, ban on automobiles, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical population of 249 million Cretaceans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 51.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Cretacean economy, worth 13.4 trillion Fossils 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, fairly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Information Technology, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. 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 53,774 Fossils, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

There's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day, the entire entry for Cretacea in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', the government's suggestions box is curiously empty these days, and a common response to government PSAs is "well, DUH, obviously". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cretacea's national animal is the Irritator, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cretacea is ranked 34,183^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Churchlands for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 50.74 on the Kitten Softness Rating.