The People's Republic of Kuromaya is a mammoth, efficient nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.589 billion Kuromayans 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.1%.

The thriving Kuromayan economy, worth 541 trillion florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,114 florins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 339,802 per year while the poor average 13,027, a ratio of 26.1 to 1.

The request to "give us our daily bread" can only be fulfilled six days out of seven, CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show, coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list, and the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kuromaya's national animal is the penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Kuromaya is ranked 294,231^st in the world and 73^rd in Yorkshire for Rudest Citizens, with 11.84 insults per minute.