The Incorporated States of Convergency is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 329 million Convergents are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.1%.

The all-consuming Convergent economy, worth 32.5 trillion joules a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 98,905 joules, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 502,540 per year while the poor average 10,770, a ratio of 46.7 to 1.

Charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came, strange men lingering in offices distributing television sets is a basis for a system of government, you can represent some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time, and there's a bustling black market for vegetables. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Convergency's national animal is the osprey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Convergency is ranked 25,208^th in the world and 392^nd in Europe for Most Secular, with 42.57 Atheism Rate.