The Making of Empty Promises is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Jo Armaros with an even hand, and notable for its burgeoning wolf population. The hard-working population of 12.955 billion Empty Promisesians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Bar. The average income tax rate is 27.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Empty Promisesian economy, worth 482 trillion Credits a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,215 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Wolfism has been named as Empty Promises's national religion, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients, and politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Empty Promises's national animal is the wolf and its national religion is Wolfism.

Empty Promises is ranked 271,551^st in the world and 10,173^rd in Lazarus for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.14 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.