The Empire of Masterian is a tiny, pleasant nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-working, democratic population of 7 million Masterianians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.3%.

The strong Masterianian economy, worth 435 billion MPS a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 62,205 MPS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 187,140 per year while the poor average 16,131, a ratio of 11.6 to 1.

Airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory, there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day, five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars, and dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Masterian's national animal is the hokage, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Masterian is ranked 328,138^th in the world and 4,560^th in The North Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 1.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.