The Confederacy of Empani is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 982 million Empanians live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government prioritizes Industry, with Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Welfare and Defense are ignored. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Empanian economy, worth 136 trillion Credits a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 138,895 Credits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 841,678 per year while the poor average 10,227, a ratio of 82.3 to 1.

Traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, judicial robes are the country's hottest fashion trend, and the well-off can quite literally buy extra votes. Crime is totally unknown. Empani's national animal is the Badger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Empani is ranked 327,971^st in the world and 1,168^th in Concord for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -13.42 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.