The Lucky Pirate Captain of S E V E R U S is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Severus Eragon Kane with an even hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 8.904 billion S E V E R U Sians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pirate Capital FlagShip Occam's Razor. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.0%.

The S E V E R U Sian economy, worth 610 trillion Gold bars 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, broadly diversified black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. 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 68,618 Gold bars, with the richest citizens earning 8.1 times as much as the poorest.

The new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves, new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, and the government is flooded with compensation requests. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. S E V E R U S's national animal is the Leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

S E V E R U S is ranked 239,199^th in the world and 5^th in Cajetan for Nicest Citizens, with 10.55 average smiles per day.