The Borderlands of Urban Hellscape is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by CEO Kuramoto Mitsukuni with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, ritual sacrifices, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.162 billion Kaishans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaisha Urbo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Kaishan economy, worth 140 trillion credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 120,578 credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 797,103 per year while the poor average 7,038, a ratio of 113 to 1.

Thoughts and prayers have replaced flood barriers and evacuation plans, ghost regiments exist only on paper, in court almost every witness is a hostile witness, and holy matrimony has been wedded to an unwieldy bureaucracy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Urban Hellscape's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Kaishan Irenism.

Urban Hellscape is ranked 239,291^st in the world and 13^th in OrangeJuice for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.29 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.