The Kingdom of Emrose is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Regent with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 25.278 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 7,034 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 Information Technology, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an amazing 278,288 wasabis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Raleigh spends billions upgrading public transport, the parliament building has installed a revolving door, one can wake up in Emrose and have breakfast in Bigtopia, and nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more. 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 220^th in the world and 1^st in The Alarna Wastes for Lowest Crime Rates, with 243.64 law-abiding acts per hour.