The Empire of Faust is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 3.829 billion Faustians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.9%.

The very strong Faustian economy, worth 200 trillion Souls a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 52,323 Souls, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 147,698 per year while the poor average 14,838, a ratio of 10.0 to 1.

Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Faust's national animal is the Pig.

Faust is ranked 230,229^th in the world and 4,829^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.47 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.