The Las Vegas Empire of The Mirage is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by MGM Resorts International with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, compulsory gun ownership, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.436 billion Mirageans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business government prioritizes Industry, with Healthcare, Law & Order, and Defense also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Mirage. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Miragean economy, worth 660 trillion chips a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 102,589 chips, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 765,770 per year while the poor average 4,019, a ratio of 190 to 1.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, and commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Mirage's national animal is the camel, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Las Vegas.

The Mirage is ranked 7,175^th in the world and 4^th in MGM Resorts International for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 97,664.95 Standard Monetary Units.