The Holy Empire of The union I is a mid-sized, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 91 million The unions 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, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.1%.

The powerhouse union Iian economy, worth 8.45 trillion Golden Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 92,811 Golden Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 312,013 per year while the poor average 20,470, a ratio of 15.2 to 1.

Dreams of entering the Super League have been relegated to the history books, door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes', religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else, and the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The union I's national animal is the Grizzly Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The union I is ranked 238,542^nd in the world and 3^rd in New Germanic Empire for Safest, scoring 37.53 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.