The Empire of Warthington is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kaiser Michael der I von Warthington with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 13.397 billion Warthingtonians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, 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 Warthington. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Warthingtonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,692 trillion Reichskrones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 126,335 Reichskrones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The monarch frequently needs protecting from misfiring protection, parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, and the true length of the coastline of Warthington may never be measured. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Warthington's national animal is the Falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Warthington is ranked 25,795^th in the world and 14^th in Deutschland for Most Beautiful Environments, with 896.59 pounds of wildlife per square mile.