The Holy Empire of Illyrial is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 36 million Illyrialians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 19.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Illyrialian economy, worth 1.57 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 43,479 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes, manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, the urban poor thumbs down the new hitchhiking ban, and laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Illyrial's national animal is the pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Illyrial is ranked 198,102^nd in the world and 899^th in the Outback for Least Corrupt Governments, with 92.7 percentage of bribes refused.