The Supreme new age nation of Prolonged Suffering is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Kurt the Robotic Overlord and murderking with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and enforced nudity. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.085 billion tiny kurtians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Spirituality and Industry are also considered important, while Welfare and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of that large canon on the moon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.8%.

The frighteningly efficient kurtian economy, worth a remarkable 4,060 trillion dead babies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 310,329 dead babies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,055,551 per year while the poor average 18,012, a ratio of 114 to 1.

Arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets, anyone who doesn't attend Official Governmental Religious Services is fined, the homeless more often beg for mercy than money, and toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Prolonged Suffering's national animal is the dying baby, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is worshiping the large canon on the moon.

Prolonged Suffering is ranked 331,782^nd in the world and 897^th in Council of Asia for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -29.42 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.