The Holy Empire of Popeim is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Father Otello with an iron fist, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, fear of technology, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.477 billion Popeimians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Epopeii. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 51.1%.

The thriving Popeimian economy, worth a remarkable 1,642 trillion Dacs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 88,903 Dacs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 269,275 per year while the poor average 22,833, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food, goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter, in this vegetarian nation the delicious smell of roasted meat is oddly commonplace, and the national anthem is considered broadly offensive to those who don't believe in Aurism. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Popeim's national animal is the Lamb, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Aurism.

Popeim is ranked 185,905^th in the world and 5^th in Devia for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 31.55 on the Bus Surprisal Index.