The Holy Empire of Opekian is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, flagrant waste-dumping, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 429 million Opekish 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 Welfare, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ortysia. The average income tax rate is 83.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Opekish economy, worth 37.0 trillion Gold Doubly Arkaels a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Retail, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,352 Gold Doubly Arkaels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter, the government is spending billions of Gold Doubly Arkaels on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist, citizens spend millions on microtransactions to feed virtual orphans while actual orphans starve overseas, and directors of low-budget sci-fi films are flocking to use Ortysia as a backdrop. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Opekian's national animal is the Sable, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Opekian is ranked 69,813^th in the world and 54^th in New United Kingdom for Most Extreme, scoring 27.57 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.