The Supreme new age nation of Prolonged Suffering is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Kurt the Robotic Overlord and murderking with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, fear of technology, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.037 billion tiny kurtians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Spirituality and Industry are also considered important, while Welfare and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of that large canon on the moon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 17.1%.

The frighteningly efficient kurtian economy, worth a remarkable 4,017 trillion dead babies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 308,177 dead babies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,061,706 per year while the poor average 17,376, a ratio of 118 to 1.

Heated town halls quickly descend into shootouts between politicians and their constituents, funding for education has been redirected into the military, when shaking hands with foreign leaders Kurt the Robotic Overlord and murderking wears an armoured gauntlet, and many are questioning Kurt the Robotic Overlord and murderking wearing an Eckie-Ecola baseball cap during a keynote speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Prolonged Suffering's national animal is the dying baby, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is worshiping the large canon on the moon.

Prolonged Suffering is ranked 331,226^th in the world and 880^th in Council of Asia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -21.32 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.