The Sublime Empire of The Free United Worlds is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Sublime Emperor Michail I Vechlya with an iron fist, and remarkable for its vat-grown people, keen interest in outer space, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 18.425 billion Imperials are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Babylon. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Imperial economy, worth a remarkable 4,700 trillion Imperial Credits a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 255,102 Imperial Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

That which doesn't kill you can get you de-platformed, it's a jungle out there, windows in New Babylon don't have much of a view, and entomologists flock to New Babylon for its remarkable gadfly population. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Free United Worlds's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is True Reason.

The Free United Worlds is ranked 6,674^th in the world and 25^th in Starlight for Highest Poor Incomes, with 147,646.14 Standard Monetary Units.