The Empire of The Banshee Queen is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 8.785 billion Forsakens 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 41.9%.

The Banshee Queenian economy, worth 353 trillion Gold Coins a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 40,251 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and the death penalty has been reintroduced. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Banshee Queen's national animal is the Undercity Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

The Banshee Queen is ranked 137,114^th in the world and 4,483^rd in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -46.37 on the Scary Big Number Scale.