The Holy Empire of Sufjan Stevens Fans is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 13.531 billion Sufjan Stevens Fans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — prioritizes Education, with Environment, Healthcare, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. The average income tax rate is 92.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sufjan Stevens Fansian economy, worth a remarkable 1,241 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 91,766 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast, parents dread their examinations more than their children, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, and astronauts take one small step for Sufjan Stevens Fans and one giant step backward from confrontation. Crime is totally unknown. Sufjan Stevens Fans's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sufjan Stevens Fans is ranked 2,885^th in the world and 65^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 18,587.31 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.