The Empty of Gunfire is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 17.768 billion Sovereigns are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gunfire City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.1%.

The all-consuming Gunfirean economy, worth a remarkable 1,413 trillion GOLDS a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 79,561 GOLDS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 236,562 per year while the poor average 20,978, a ratio of 11.3 to 1.

Much of Gunfire's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in Gunfire to be bombproof, and citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gunfire's national animal is the Lamb, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Gunfire is ranked 9,466^th in the world and 6^th in Scandinavia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,007.75 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.