The Dominion of Past is Prologue is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 33.417 billion Prologueans 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 tiny, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The frighteningly efficient a Prologuean economy, worth a remarkable 3,907 trillion Futures a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 116,932 Futures, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 407,436 per year while the poor average 24,433, a ratio of 16.7 to 1.

Ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, and drunk drivers are sentenced to death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Past is Prologue's national animal is the Past, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Past is Prologue is ranked 58,451^st in the world and 1,446^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Corrupt Governments, with 31.2 kickbacks per hour.