The United Socialist States of Crobuzon is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 741 million Crobuzonians 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 juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wormseye Scrub. The average income tax rate is 82.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Crobuzonian economy, worth 36.7 trillion Bugs a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,476 Bugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prices for nearly everything reach all-time highs as business tax breaks are discontinued, the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance, giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Leader is a silly poophead, and in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crobuzon's national animal is the Honey Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Crobuzon is ranked 36,632^nd in the world and 308^th in 10000 Islands for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.32 law-abiding acts per hour.