The Empire of Qrion is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Qriaki III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, free-roaming dinosaurs, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 13.515 billion Qrionians 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Qrii. The average income tax rate is 73.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Qrionian economy, worth a remarkable 3,252 trillion Onos a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 240,692 Onos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

What citizens give with one hand they take away with the other, new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark, massive new slaughterhouses are being hailed as a sign of progress, and nobody thinks that the Godfather was bettered by Part 2. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Qrion's national animal is the Crow, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The One.

Qrion is ranked 7,597^th in the world and 21^st in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Governments, scoring 38.47 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.