The Armed Republic of Notrus is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Astre with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.538 billion Notrusians, 1.118 billion of whom are zombies, are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Novus. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Notrusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,274 trillion Scrores 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. 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 amazing 280,833 Scrores, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, museums occasionally burn priceless artifacts in order to intimidate foreign curators, urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, and government leaders testify at international tribunals on why the sun went out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Notrus's national animal is the Chericic, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Notrus.

Notrus is ranked 3,026^th in the world and 1^st in Confederation of Arcanial Nations for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring 64,694.75 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.