The Faithful of Knights Templar XVI is a massive, genial nation, notable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The quiet, industrious population of 1.211 billion Knights Templar XVIians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 26.6%.

The Knights Templar XVIian economy, worth 60.7 trillion golds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 50,143 golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, and wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Knights Templar XVI's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Knights Templar XVI is ranked 108,275^th in the world and 101^st in Empires Forever United for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 81.85 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.