The United Socialist States of Crisantemo13 is a mammoth, genial nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate population of 6.946 billion Crisantemians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of CD102. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Crisantemo13ian economy, worth 907 trillion aspirines a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 130,605 aspirines, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Judicial torture is outsourced overseas, making up random numbers to name new asteroids is the bulk of astronomers' work, fidgety cubicle workers play with their balls, and outdated physical currency is considered a biohazard. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crisantemo13's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Crisantemo13 is ranked 17,148^th in the world and 191^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 334.28 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.