The Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by King Riordan VIII with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 38.543 billion Urceans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urceopolis. The average income tax rate is 11.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Urcean economy, worth an astonishing 10,604 trillion Imperial Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 275,126 Imperial Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens, students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great Urcean Liberator", and spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Urcea's national animal is the Yellow Labrador, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Urcea is ranked 96,462^nd in the world and 8^th in Greater Ixnay for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring 3,307.37 on the Hickory Productivity Index.