The Empire of Explandionian is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 521 million Explandionianians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 57.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Explandionianian economy, worth 27.1 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 52,102 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy', foreign musicians that Leader dislikes are turned away at the border, troops clank into battle wearing antique suits of armour, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Explandionian's national animal is the peacock.

Explandionian is ranked 158,120^th in the world and 196^th in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Most Developed, scoring 54.98 on the Human Development Index.