The Purgatory of Snub is a massive, genial nation, ruled by George Bonaparte VII with an even hand, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, sprawling nuclear power plants, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 2.052 billion snubians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of dystopiantopia. The average income tax rate is 89.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Snubian economy, worth 152 trillion currencies a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,495 currencies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, school uniforms are compulsory, the snub dishpenoid is a protected species, and George Bonaparte VII affectionately nicknames supporters by number. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Snub's national animal is the snub dishpenoid, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is escapism.

Snub is ranked 303,670^th in the world and 102^nd in Wintercrest for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.29 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.