The Nuclear Holocaust Survivors of Sector 18 is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Антонио Роча with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, vat-grown people, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.967 billion Sectorians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Compartment of Discipline. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Sectorian economy, worth a remarkable 3,566 trillion Neo Rubles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 an amazing 357,843 Neo Rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,073,530 per year while the poor average 93,169, a ratio of 11.5 to 1.

Drowning sailors are hung out to dry, the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime, women mime their gynaecological symptoms with hand-puppets, and people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sector 18's national animal is the Phoenix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Outlawed.

Sector 18 is ranked 31,355^th in the world and 1^st in The Ruined Earth for Smartest Citizens, with 55.22 quips per hour.