The Divergent Dictatorship of Bortresoye is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Lady Excelsior with an iron fist, and renowned for its vat-grown people, ban on automobiles, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.365 billion Divergences are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Light City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.2%.

The strong Divergent economy, worth a remarkable 2,570 trillion Excelsiors 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. 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 impressive 139,975 Excelsiors, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 876,815 per year while the poor average 9,471, a ratio of 92.6 to 1.

Jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity, the navy is hoping to hear the enemy shout "you sank my battleship!", the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors, and refugee camp conversions to Excelsiorism - Creed of the Kromon are increasingly common. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Bortresoye's national animal is the Kromon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Excelsiorism - Creed of the Kromon.

Bortresoye is ranked 45,700^th in the world and 5^th in The Doctor Who Universe for Lowest Crime Rates, with 75.52 law-abiding acts per hour.