The Swordtress of Crusader-13 is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.96 billion Crusader-13ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 29.5%.

The thriving Crusader-13ian economy, worth 171 trillion florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 87,557 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

People who make the leader's blood boil get boiled, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, every political office comes fitted with a typewriter and an old filing cabinet, and young men in tiny bikinis draw neither comment nor stares on the morning commute. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crusader-13's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Crusader-13 is ranked 62,869^th in the world and 303^rd in Alliance of Supreme Powers for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,990.1 on the Gilded Widget Scale.