The Royaume du Nettoyage of Purgatio is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Le Grand Roi De La Fayette with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.701 billion Purgations 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Auxiliora. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Purgation economy, worth a remarkable 3,211 trillion Élites a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 274,443 Élites, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,545,233 per year while the poor average 2,792, a ratio of 911 to 1.

Everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist, the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried Vipère Dung" has been declared a national treasure, nobody expected the fruit inquisition, and the most popular stadium acts are one-off performances. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Purgatio's national animal is the Vipère, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Mandatum Est.

Purgatio is ranked 1,132^nd in the world and 36^th in Lazarus for Most Corrupt Governments, with 454.1 kickbacks per hour.