The Apostles of Decency is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Pope Decere IV with an even hand, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 1.604 billion Apostles of Decency 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 large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of DecenCity. The average income tax rate is 50.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Decent economy, worth 57.8 trillion manus a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,022 manus, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The military has forsaken terrestrial warfare, it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon, putting a mustache on a banknote is considered defacing a national monument, and science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Decency's national animal is the wolf, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Decency is ranked 293,790^th in the world and 1^st in The Decent Never Die for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -41.12 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.