The Commonwealth of Cruisette is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 233 million Sophians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 43.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cruisettean economy, worth 5.07 trillion coins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 21,773 coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials, military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies, high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate, and selfie stick use is a required Scout badge. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cruisette's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cruisette is ranked 159,848^th in the world and 3^rd in Runcina ex Praegrandis Entia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,009.84 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.