The Holy Empire of Surala is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Empty God-Emperor Talith Yi I with an iron fist, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, parental licensing program, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.897 billion Suralans 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, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Holy City of Il-Sura. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Suralan economy, worth a remarkable 7,148 trillion Sus a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is a breathtaking 656,040 Sus, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,546,755 per year while the poor average 115,686, a ratio of 22.0 to 1.

Museums occasionally burn priceless artifacts in order to intimidate foreign curators, the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet, bicyclists are banned from major roads, and life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Surala's national animal is the Suralan Rock Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Talithism.

Surala is ranked 280^th in the world and 1^st in Imperial World Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 226.19 law-abiding acts per hour.