The JRPG of Final Fantasy 13 is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Chocobo with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory vegetarianism, anti-smoking policies, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 8.57 billion Final Fantasy 13ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Square. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Final Fantasy 13ian economy, worth 758 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,536 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists, retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits, and formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Final Fantasy 13's national animal is the emu, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Crystals.

Final Fantasy 13 is ranked 53,270^th in the world and 4^th in Square Enix for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 5,427.04 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.