The All Encompassing Empire of Large is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Big Kleiner with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, lack of airports, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.469 billion Largeruses are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Huge. The average income tax rate is 56.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Large economy, worth 147 trillion smalls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, highly specialized black market in Gambling and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 42,599 smalls, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Young people suspect their parents might be a little bit stupid, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, those with disabilities have an equal right to a job they hate, and the children of Large are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Large's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Bigotism.

Large is ranked 238,732^nd in the world and 7^th in big for Safest, scoring 29.17 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.