The Drifting Corpse of Something Dead is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by A Waiting Vulture with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 8.355 billion Dead Somethings 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 58.5%.

The Something Deadian economy, worth 236 trillion Skull and Boneses a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Soda Sales. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 28,295 Skull and Boneses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

A Waiting Vulture has just been declared ruler of Something Dead in an international press conference, the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque, organisations with 800 in their phone number are often raided by special forces, and open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Something Dead's national animal is the Haunted Corpse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Afterlife.

Something Dead is ranked 30,234^th in the world and 278^th in the West Pacific for Most Conservative, scoring 80.17 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.