The United Socialist States of Empeneriand is a large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 113 million Empeneriandians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Empeneriandian economy, worth 1.79 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 15,846 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military spending recently hit a new high, genetic researchers have been expelled, organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, and people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Empeneriand's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Empeneriand is ranked 150,516^th in the world and 153^rd in Starlight for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring zero on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.