The Kingdom of Lord Sterculius is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 40.881 billion Lord Sterculiusians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 77.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Lord Sterculiusian economy, worth 964 trillion onion rings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 23,597 onion rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed. Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lord Sterculius's national animal is the poop cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lord Sterculius is ranked 78,481^st in the world and 1^st in Saturn for Most Corrupt Governments, with 21.2 kickbacks per hour.