The Nuclear Holocaust Survivors of Sector 18 is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Антонио Роча with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, lack of airports, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.792 billion Sectorians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Compartment of Discipline. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 78.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Sectorian economy, worth a remarkable 3,497 trillion Neo Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 357,217 Neo Rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,066,869 per year while the poor average 93,599, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Couch potatoes are considered to be model citizens, promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', and sick days are on the rise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sector 18's national animal is the Phoenix, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Outlawed.

Sector 18 is ranked 394^th in the world and 1^st in The Ruined Earth for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 14,608.61 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.