The Sultanate of Cresolyn is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 567 million Cresolynians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Cresolynian economy, worth 5.12 trillion pounds 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 slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. 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 9,038 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Weather reports simply advise Cresolynians to 'look outside', universities now offer degrees in cycling etiquette, recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed, and gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cresolyn's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cresolyn is ranked 253,119^th in the world and 28^th in The Wave Experience for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.16 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.