The Republic of Red November is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Captain with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 21.054 billion Red Novemberians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Red November. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Red Novemberian economy, worth a remarkable 5,814 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 276,162 marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,322,811 per year while the poor average 33,737, a ratio of 39.2 to 1.

Convicts get out of jams easily, diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat", stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet, and copyright laws have been abolished. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Red November's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is the Sea.

Red November is ranked 43,077^th in the world and 1^st in November for Smartest Citizens, with 47.24 quips per hour.