The Kingdom of Emrose is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Regent with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cheerful population of 25.328 billion Emroseans 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, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Raleigh. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Emrosean economy, worth a remarkable 7,053 trillion wasabis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 278,471 wasabis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers, medical staff can legally quiet people who ask for a second helping of Salisbury steak, it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey, and the fattest folk in Emrose look to be the happiest ones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Emrose's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Emrose is ranked 282,767^th in the world and 1^st in The Alarna Wastes for Most Primitive, scoring -387.14 on the Scary Big Number Scale.