The Hyperconsumerist Fiefdom of Quaeteno is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by High Yeoman Olaf Morbucks with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, flagrant waste-dumping, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.036 billion Quaetenonians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Administration and Education also on the agenda, while Environment and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Hisperia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Quaetenonian economy, worth 144 trillion Quartrons a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 139,066 Quartrons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 845,779 per year while the poor average 10,147, a ratio of 83.3 to 1.

Quaetenonian politics is literally a blood sport, folk singers have replaced personal injury lawyers in being ridiculed as "ambulance chasers", weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them, and airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Quaeteno's national animal is the Sheep, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Numismatism.

Quaeteno is ranked 145,493^rd in the world and 2,113^th in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,110.22 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.