The Dictatorship of Remanescente is a fledgling, orderly nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 6 million Remanescenteans 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 44.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Remanescentean economy, worth 117 billion Pragmatikós 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 black market in Retail, Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, 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 19,590 Pragmatikós, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The right to counsel goes both ways, the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem", no one over the age of 35 has the slightest clue what is going on, and it turns out that money can buy you happiness. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Remanescente's national animal is the Thalássio Liontári, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Remanescente is ranked 317,071^st in the world and 868^th in Europe for Largest Black Market, with 5.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.