The Empire of Warthington is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Michael der I von Warthington with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, state-planned economy, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 18.622 billion Warthingtonians 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Warthington. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Warthingtonian economy, worth a remarkable 2,364 trillion Reichskrones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 126,988 Reichskrones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, the nation excels at displacement, the nation won three wars against Brancaland this weekend, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Warthington's national animal is the Falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Warthington is ranked 19,452^nd in the world and 7^th in Deutschland for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 3,414.16 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.