The Empire of Nas Crustium is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by The Emperor of the Crusti with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.729 billion Crusti 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, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crusticant. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 75.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Crusti economy, worth a remarkable 5,807 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 665,302 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 6,162,820 per year while the poor average 6,864, a ratio of 897 to 1.

Truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nas Crustium's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Nas Crustium is ranked 281,576^th in the world and 3,482^nd in the West Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -14.49 on the Clooney Contribution Index.