The Imperial Alliance of Sperio is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Grand Duke Tiberius with an even hand, and renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, public floggings, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate population of 15.21 billion Sperioans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Atlantis. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Sperioan economy, worth a remarkable 1,724 trillion Spires a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,364 Spires, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ghost regiments exist only on paper, the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face, Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, and the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sperio's national animal is the Osprey, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Hellenism.

Sperio is ranked 5,019^th in the world and 1^st in Cedresia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 2,342.02 pounds of wildlife per square mile.