The Republic of Quicksan is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Ronald Gaston with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.923 billion Quicksanian's 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 enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Welfare, Administration, and Education also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Boomdox. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Quicksanian economy, worth 109 trillion Quickers 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, 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 56,816 Quickers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The education system has gotten a recent boost in spending, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself, and military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Quicksan's national animal is the Moth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Christianity.

Quicksan is ranked 179,530^th in the world and 1,106^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 52.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.