The Empire of Rising Sakura is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, pith helmet sales, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 533 million Ajianese 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shojiki City. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Rising Sakuran economy, worth 47.5 trillion Imperial Ajianese Yen 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. 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 89,191 Imperial Ajianese Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel, monarchs only get custody of the royal crown on holidays and weekends, kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers, and the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rising Sakura's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Rising Sakura is ranked 10,456^th in the world and 546^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.89 Law-abiding Acts Per Hour.