The Republic of Curative Agent 12 is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 1.152 billion Curative Agent 12ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 63.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Curative Agent 12ian economy, worth 30.4 trillion Credits a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,430 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Curative Agent 12 in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Curative Agent 12's national animal is the Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Curative Agent 12 is ranked 292,067^th in the world and 356^th in Blue Chevron for Most Patriotic, with 1.12 flags saluted per person per day.