The Holy United Realms of Emdilur is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Amtur with a fair hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.206 billion Emdilurians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Geldrazet. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Emdilurian economy, worth 207 trillion Kertus a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 171,879 Kertus, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,210,395 per year while the poor average 8,266, a ratio of 146 to 1.

Fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism, hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers, foreign ambassadors closely guard their culinary secrets, and coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Emdilur's national animal is the Serpent, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Chthonism.

Emdilur is ranked 61,791^st in the world and 83^rd in The League for Most Developed, scoring 73.72 on the Human Development Index.