The Most Serene Republic of Kranan is a small, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 32 million Krananians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Krananian economy, worth 1.05 trillion Kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 32,953 Kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags, poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment, autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum, and the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kranan's national animal is the Stallion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kranan is ranked 13,264^th in the world and 9^th in The Pacifica for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 1,466.8 on the Clooney Contribution Index.