The Grand Imperium of Volkhar is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by King Alexandros Capulet IX with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 19.217 billion Imperials 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandria. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Imperial economy, worth a remarkable 9,579 trillion Septims a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 498,501 Septims, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps, online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for Volkhar, drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars, and exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated'. Crime is totally unknown. Volkhar's national animal is the Kraken, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Christianity.

Volkhar is ranked 11,613^th in the world and 1^st in Mahtomedi for Lowest Crime Rates, with 98.41 law-abiding acts per hour.