The Empire of Stiggathon is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Orcus Octavius with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.497 billion Romans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rome. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Roman economy, worth 922 trillion Denaris a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 205,177 Denaris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise Orcus Octavius on Stiggathon's coulrophobia epidemic, adults have never outgrown their fear of monsters, high school bands practice by moonlight, and enemy combatants are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stiggathon's national animal is the Wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Stiggathon is ranked 13,580^th in the world and 757^th in Balder for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 347.87 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.