The Empire of Maister is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 179 million Masters are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Master economy, worth 8.61 trillion dominis a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 48,077 dominis, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, sleeping on the job is recommended, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, and administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Maister's national animal is the wingless flying hippo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Maister is ranked 134,891^st in the world and 691^st in Europe for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,104.25 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.