The EMPIRE of Crowstria is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by amir with an even hand, and renowned for its feral children, enslaved workforce, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 2.783 billion Crowstrians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of nizoe. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.4%.

The powerhouse Crowstrian economy, worth 207 trillion mows a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,608 mows, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 310,259 per year while the poor average 11,738, a ratio of 26.4 to 1.

Amir has killer fashion sense, oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires, school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, and society has literally been thrown to the wolves. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crowstria's national animal is the crow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is no religion.

Crowstria is ranked 295,154^th in the world and 11,133^rd in Lazarus for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -11.4 on the Clooney Contribution Index.