The Holy Empire of Violetania is a massive, genial nation, notable for its triple-decker prams, state-planned economy, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 2.203 billion Violetanians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 79.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Violetanian economy, worth 25.3 trillion Violets a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 11,502 Violets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works, grandparents tell young ones tales of the good old days when people had cake on their birthday, and contestants on Violetania's Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Violetania's national animal is the Purple Dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Violetania is ranked 99,205^th in the world and 11^th in Optimarch for Most Corrupt Governments, with 15.39 kickbacks per hour.