The Holy Warriors of Knights Templar XVII is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed population of 2.621 billion Knights Templar XVIIians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24.7%.

The thriving Knights Templar XVIIian economy, worth 195 trillion golds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 74,530 golds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 279,593 per year while the poor average 13,884, a ratio of 20.1 to 1.

Roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it, comedians who make offensive jokes have their ticket proceeds seized, military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, and Leader's luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Knights Templar XVII's national animal is the dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Knights Templar XVII is ranked 9,918^th in the world and 47^th in Artificial Solar System for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,228.14 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.