The Incorporated States of Convergency is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its digital currency, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 289 million Convergents are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.1%.

The all-consuming Convergent economy, worth 28.5 trillion joules a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 98,555 joules, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 493,271 per year while the poor average 11,059, a ratio of 44.6 to 1.

Charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came, strange men lingering in offices distributing television sets is a basis for a system of government, you can represent some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time, and there's a bustling black market for vegetables. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Convergency's national animal is the osprey, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Convergency is ranked 8,094^th in the world and 71^st in Europe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 94,515.14 Standard Monetary Units.