The Empire of Pemberley is a large, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 113 million Pemberleyians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.7%.

The very strong Pemberleyian economy, worth 8.33 trillion Franks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 73,758 Franks, with the richest citizens earning 9.9 times as much as the poorest.

Military funding has been stripped back, meat-eating is frowned upon, the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, and new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Pemberley's national animal is the Alyssas, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Pemberley is ranked 198,768^th in the world and 198^th in Benigtopia for Highest Poor Incomes, with 21,038.85 Standard Monetary Units.