The United Socialist States of Krub is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 912 million Krubians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Krub City. The average income tax rate is 81.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Krubian economy, worth 92.1 trillion Krubs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 100,935 Krubs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines, the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge, the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, and conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Krub's national animal is the Krab, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Krub is ranked 261,266^th in the world and 485^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 820.37 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.