The Holy Empire's Protectorate of Sorcery is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by The Regency Council with an even hand, and renowned for its conspicuous electricity pylons, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 7.417 billion Sorcerians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dirlodim Taoul. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Sorcerian economy, worth a remarkable 1,284 trillion Shillings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 173,164 Shillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic, space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, all government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police, and finders keepers is the law of the land. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sorcery's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ipeonic imperial cult.

Sorcery is ranked 3,883^rd in the world and 3^rd in Sky Haven for Largest Governments, scoring 46.09 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.