The County of Quercy is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Étienne-François Lolmède d'Escayrac with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 26.368 billion Quercynois are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cahors. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.9%.

The very strong Quercynois economy, worth a remarkable 1,511 trillion francs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 57,306 francs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 175,060 per year while the poor average 14,540, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Voting is compulsory, Quercy has designated Cahors as its capital city, Étienne-François Lolmède d'Escayrac has just been declared ruler of Quercy in an international press conference, and Roman Catholicism has been named as Quercy's national religion. Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Quercy's national animal is the cow and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Quercy is ranked 118,727^th in the world and 6^th in Grant for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 85.15 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.