The Senatorial Republic of Proserpino is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, daily referendums, and digital currency. The compassionate, humorless population of 9.234 billion Proserpinians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Roma. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Proserpinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,206 trillion aureuses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 130,633 aureuses, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political commentators say that PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC's fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped, all facts are created equal, all Proserpinians love the taste of self-sufficiency, and the government spends billions to retrieve millions worth of asteroid gold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Proserpino's national animal is the Lupus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Proserpinism.

Proserpino is ranked 212,058^th in the world and 8,056^th in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.41 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.