The Implosion of Banners is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Major Weaver with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 20.683 billion Bannerians 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 minute, corrupt, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, with Public Transport also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lano City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.7%.

The strong Bannerian economy, worth a remarkable 1,061 trillion spools a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 51,341 spools, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 159,261 per year while the poor average 12,743, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

The libraries of Banners are staffed by lone, lonely librarians, cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death, there's a bustling black market for vegetables, and global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect Banners of supplying extremist groups. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Banners's national animal is the spider, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is the cult of Athena.

Banners is ranked 8,584^th in the world and 7^th in Equilism for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 11,713.25 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.