The Kingdom of Royal Perdition is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 322 million Royal Perditionians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.4%.

The strong Royal Perditionian economy, worth 16.9 trillion Royal Dollars a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,608 Royal Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

Odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, foreign lack of enthusiasm for Royal Perditionian nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli, and schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Royal Perdition's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Royal Perdition is ranked 89,150^th in the world and 4^th in Royal Tradition for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,695.24 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.