The Sultanate of The Cross Guild is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 646 million Cross Guildians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 12.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Cross Guildian economy, worth 39.6 trillion silver slabs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 61,306 silver slabs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's nuclear defence policy is to "turn the other cheek", credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government, The Cross Guild City has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, and gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Cross Guild's national animal is the charger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Cross Guild is ranked 69,086^th in the world and 118^th in KAISERREICH for Most Patriotic, with 20.37 flags saluted per person per day.