The Republic of Crownly is a massive, genial nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.735 billion Crownlyians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 40.6%.

The Crownlyian economy, worth 93.3 trillion papers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,771 papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, the government is spending billions of taxpayer papers to support "struggling" industries, government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read, and a major religion has been named as Crownly's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crownly's national animal is the crow, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Crownly is ranked 204,418^th in the world and 6^th in Orcusa for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 5,719.1 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.