The Second Empire of Kiermark is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by High King Kieran III Alarik with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed population of 39.546 billion Kierics are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kessengard. The average income tax rate is 87.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Kieric economy, worth a remarkable 9,095 trillion Reichsmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 230,002 Reichsmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, a passport is literally priceless, extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals, and it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kiermark's national animal is the Festillic Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Kieric Orthodoxy.

Kiermark is ranked 241,380^th in the world and 35^th in One big Island for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 29,210.38 Standard Monetary Units.