The Holy Land of Priests of the Coin is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Albert Koosan with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, lack of airports, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.482 billion Potcesians 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Coin Temple Hill. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Potcesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,031 trillion Coins a year, is highly specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 121,581 Coins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 366,937 per year while the poor average 31,386, a ratio of 11.7 to 1.

A vast monorail network carries people all over the country, slow dancing is made trickier when Auntie Edna insists on standing between the couple's arms, Potcesians are unrivalled in obstacle courses, and a recent "genocide prevention" campaign includes murdering children based on their DNA. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Priests of the Coin's national animal is the Shrew, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Coinology.

Priests of the Coin is ranked 12,486^th in the world and 24^th in Fifth Empire for Lowest Crime Rates, with 97.18 law-abiding acts per hour.