The Trans-Universal Empire of The African Emirates is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Ernest with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.463 billion Emiratians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Emiratia-3. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Emiratian economy, worth a remarkable 4,799 trillion Qis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 331,818 Qis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, and where there's smoke there's the Emiratian Forestry Department. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The African Emirates's national animal is the Emiratian Elephant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

The African Emirates is ranked 127^th in the world and 3^rd in 10000 Islands for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,631.71 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.