The Kingdom of Emrose is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Regent with an even hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cheerful population of 25.389 billion Emroseans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Raleigh. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Emrosean economy, worth a remarkable 7,072 trillion wasabis 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 Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 278,578 wasabis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visiting the best Emrosean restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, artists are pillars of society, programmers often reinvent the wheel, and a passport is literally priceless. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Emrose's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Emrose is ranked 88^th in the world and 1^st in The Alarna Wastes for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 10,047.31 on the Clooney Contribution Index.