The Republic of Quarter Past is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its avant-garde cinema, ritual sacrifices, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical population of 3.428 billion Quarter Pastians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 43.0%.

The very strong Quarter Pastian economy, worth 275 trillion bad bad hats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 80,420 bad bad hats, with the richest citizens earning 5.1 times as much as the poorest.

A murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career, a nickname of "Doctor Death" probably indicates a decorated war hero, Quarter Pastian tourists are banned from many nations due to their tendency to randomly explode, and citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quarter Past's national animal is the bad bad hat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Quarter Past is ranked 56,473^rd in the world and 1^st in Averon for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 4,924.35 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.