The United Kingdom of Crackerish Miner 9 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.48 billion Crackerish Miner 9ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 62.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Crackerish Miner 9ian economy, worth 189 trillion floflorins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,854 floflorins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face, nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons, and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crackerish Miner 9's national animal is the papa panther, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Crackerish Miner 9 is ranked 67,281^st in the world and 6^th in The Crackerish Mining Bureau for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,541.02 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.