The Empire of Storon is a large, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 159 million Storonians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 40.8%.

The Storonian economy, worth 6.67 trillion gold coins a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,961 gold coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections, serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers, students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, and nobody knows why the caged eagle sings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Storon's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Storon is ranked 298,808^th in the world and 69^th in The Global Elite for Largest Populations, with 159 million capita.