The Armed Republic of Common-sense is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, strictly enforced bedtime, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 8.105 billion Common-senseans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Common-sensean economy, worth 674 trillion Almighty Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 83,260 Almighty Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence, reassembling shredded papers is the highlight of a spy's day, and a common response to government PSAs is "well, DUH, obviously". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Common-sense's national animal is the Shapiran Monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Common-sense is ranked 24,766^th in the world and 8^th in Scotia for Safest, scoring 111.64 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.