The Empire of Center korea is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its daily referendums, unlimited-speed roads, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.597 billion new koreans 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, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 61.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Center korean economy, worth 73.3 trillion korean coins 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Furniture Restoration, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 45,870 korean coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls, the big red machine has ground to a halt, Leader's family members carry literal get-out-of-jail-free cards, and the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of Center korean democracy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Center korea's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Center korea is ranked 187,769^th in the world and 7,506^th in Osiris for Largest Populations, with 1.60 billion capita.