The Company of Swedish Mercenaries is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by the Captain with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 14.022 billion Swedes 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Stockholm. The average income tax rate is 60.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Swedish economy, worth 505 trillion kronor a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining and Cheese Exports. Average income is 36,022 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vaccinations are mandatory, cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze, the Swedish delegation to the World Assembly is having a hard time convincing people that international law will "pay for itself somehow...", and police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Swedish Mercenaries's national animal is the swede, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Swedish Mercenaries is ranked 191,758^th in the world and 983^rd in the Outback for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2.05 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.