The Empire of Nas Crustium is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Emperor of the Crusti with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, strictly enforced bedtime, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.947 billion Crusti are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Crusticant. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Crusti economy, worth a remarkable 7,089 trillion Credits a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is a breathtaking 712,697 Credits, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 6,616,705 per year while the poor average 7,161, a ratio of 923 to 1.

The nation's new currency features full-length portraits of The Emperor of the Crusti in ermine and velvet garb, the government keeps its thumb on the scales of justice, old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation, and the Crusti delegation to the World Assembly is having a hard time convincing people that international law will "pay for itself somehow...". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nas Crustium's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Nas Crustium is ranked 130^th in the world and 1^st in the West Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 24,985.15 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.