The Screaming Ediface of Ebon Citadel is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Emeshkyral the Incarnate with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, anti-smoking policies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cheerful population of 17.237 billion Ichorescent Agonarches are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The minute, socially-minded government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seeping Vallation. Income tax is unheard of.

The enormous but sluggish Comsogyral economy, worth a remarkable 1,617 trillion Ichorous Kilderkins 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 93,820 Ichorous Kilderkins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sex changes are routinely performed at Ebon Citadel's hospitals, saying "don't do anything that Emeshkyral the Incarnate wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, and asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response. Crime is totally unknown. Ebon Citadel's national animal is the Haematic Helminth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is ␀.

Ebon Citadel is ranked 85,929^th in the world and 1^st in The Dour Isthmus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.78 law-abiding acts per hour.