The Confederation of Latrocinium is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Dr Hill with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.138 billion Latrocinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bacaudon. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Latrociniumian economy, worth 474 trillion libras a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 42,644 libras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Future leaders of Latrocinium regularly dismiss pressing political issues when available options don't conform to their worldview, a third of Latrocinians are e-certified CEOs, prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows, and modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Latrocinium's national animal is the double-headed eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Latrocinium is ranked 16,189^th in the world and 963^rd in Balder for Safest, scoring 115.3 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.