The Empire of Eternal Flames is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Kaiser Otukugo I with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.937 billion Flamesians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunrise City. The average income tax rate is 87.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Flamesian economy, worth a remarkable 1,746 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 159,727 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All industry is owned and run by the government, the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", and finders keepers is the law of the land. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eternal Flames's national animal is the Falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Banned.

Eternal Flames is ranked 143,517^th in the world and 1,990^th in the Pacific for Safest, scoring 64.93 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.