The Manchurian Candidate of Holy Empire of Loaf is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Alx VI with a fair hand, and notable for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 17.055 billion Loafians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Loaf City. The average income tax rate is 92.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Loafian economy, worth a remarkable 1,518 trillion Loaves a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 89,064 Loaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Home renovation projects take decades to complete, Loafians believe manners maketh the leader, ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, and more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Holy Empire of Loaf's national animal is the Degosaurus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Loafism.

Holy Empire of Loaf is ranked 9,592^nd in the world and 4^th in The Great Experiment for Highest Food Quality, scoring 163.67 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.