The Holy Empire of StMichael is a mid-sized, orderly nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 83 million StMichaelians 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 relatively small, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24.1%.

The very strong StMichaelian economy, worth 7.35 trillion Denaris a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,573 Denaris, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

Giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why Leader is a silly poophead, statistics show that terrorists often come from broken families, the land is no place for fish, and wait staff claim to like it when odorous customers flirt with them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. StMichael's national animal is the Owl.

StMichael is ranked 307,223^rd in the world and 6^th in Cumberperry for Largest Populations, with 83.0 million capita.