The Magocracy of Magisteria is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Grand Magister Sable with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 18.691 billion Magisterians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, 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 Magisterium. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Magisterian economy, worth an astonishing 10,978 trillion Little Glass Phials of Mercury a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 587,358 Little Glass Phials of Mercury, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,964,712 per year while the poor average 130,524, a ratio of 15.1 to 1.

Foreign nationals are widely distrusted, illicit spice trade makes desert merchants wrangling worms blush, residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, and years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Magisteria's national animal is the Black Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Magisteria is ranked 189,593^rd in the world and 7,384^th in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 17.85 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.