The Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by King Riordan VIII with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 41.999 billion Urceans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urceopolis. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Urcean economy, worth an astonishing 13,400 trillion Talers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 319,064 Talers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,293,661 per year while the poor average 52,383, a ratio of 24.7 to 1.

Keeping the lights on keeps the lights on for increasing amounts of Urceans, the nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle, agricultural employees work for peanuts, and environmental legislation occurs cyclically. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urcea's national animal is the Yellow Labrador, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Urcea is ranked 14,160^th in the world and 5^th in Greater Ixnay for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 9,360.14 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.