The Supreme new age nation of Prolonged Suffering is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Kurt the Robotic Overlord and murderking with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, triple-decker prams, and astonishingly minimal parenting. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.978 billion tiny kurtians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Spirituality and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and Environment are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of that large canon on the moon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.3%.

The frighteningly efficient kurtian economy, worth a remarkable 3,926 trillion dead babies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 302,541 dead babies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,040,326 per year while the poor average 16,657, a ratio of 122 to 1.

Students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations, glassy-eyed kurtian wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command, the nation's healthcare system has taken a "survival of the fittest" approach in administering care, and a small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Prolonged Suffering's national animal is the dying baby, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is worshiping the large canon on the moon.

Prolonged Suffering is ranked 309,572^nd in the world and 852^nd in Council of Asia for Most Cultured, scoring -32 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.