The Empire of Corsaria is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Empress Mataii with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 34.905 billion Corsarians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Corsaria City. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Corsarian economy, worth an astonishing 15,289 trillion Cors a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 438,018 Cors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, glamping Corsarians won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi, the comic book series 'Empress Mataii and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, and invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Corsaria's national animal is the Tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Corsaria is ranked 484^th in the world and 1^st in Katasia for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 14,552.03 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.