The People's Republic of Kuruona is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed population of 453 million Kuruonans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Defense and Law & Order also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kastilyo. The average income tax rate is 70.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Kuruonan economy, worth 10.8 trillion pesos a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 23,847 pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons', and you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kuruona's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kuruona is ranked 253,918^th in the world and 4,256^th in The North Pacific for Most Conservative, scoring 38.42 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.