The Rogue Nation of The kill is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 501 million killiers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The hood. The average income tax rate is 26.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient killer economy, worth 23.4 trillion Green Bloods a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 46,639 Green Bloods, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers, many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, and The kill has designated The hood as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The kill's national animal is the Terror bird, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

The kill is ranked 252,481^st in the world and 14,265^th in Osiris for Most Developed, scoring 52.46 on the Human Development Index.