The Empire of The Unknown Graveyard is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 773 million Graveyardians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 49.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Graveyardian economy, worth 25.3 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,692 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats, government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, and the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Unknown Graveyard's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Unknown Graveyard is ranked 258,048^th in the world and 1,266^th in the Outback for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 27.31 on the Bus Surprisal Index.