The Empire of Sapphirium is a large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 117 million Sapphiriumians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 51.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sapphiriumian economy, worth 6.31 trillion Sapphires a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 53,922 Sapphires, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Skateparks can be found in every city, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections, and the mob vote is a crucial electoral demographic. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sapphirium's national animal is the Sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sapphirium is ranked 148,173^rd in the world and 11^th in The Sapphirelands for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 529.55 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.