The Imperium of ColtIus is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Supreme Innovatior Calahan Reus with an iron fist, and notable for its vat-grown people, disturbing lack of elderly people, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.346 billion ColtIusians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Mentem. The average income tax rate is 90.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ColtIusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,269 trillion Colts 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 a large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. 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 impressive 172,866 Colts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

International organisations everywhere are united in their condemnation of the nation's zombified military (ColtIus has found 1 easter egg), government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary, not showing enough enthusiasm for mutual assured destruction is a court-martial offence, and Dàguó lanterns outnumber streetlights in major cities. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ColtIus's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Innovation.

ColtIus is ranked 9,741^st in the world and 376^th in Osiris for Highest Poor Incomes, with 127,667.35 Standard Monetary Units.