The Empire of Knowledge Institute is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Director with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, aversion to nipples, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.724 billion Knowledge Instituteans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Education, Administration, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Knowledge Institutean economy, worth a remarkable 7,336 trillion Caps a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 534,538 Caps, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,149,938 per year while the poor average 88,942, a ratio of 24.2 to 1.

Fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, international trade is a sticky issue, the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks, and access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Knowledge Institute's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Knowledge Institute is ranked 13,682^nd in the world and 2^nd in Interstellar Conglomerate for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 4,354.08 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.