The Empire of Kirkockastan is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 3.576 billion Kirkockastanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirkockalopolis. The average income tax rate is 52.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Kirkockastanian economy, worth 199 trillion Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,920 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader has just been declared ruler of Kirkockastan in an international press conference, whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape, and no one is worried about government policies any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kirkockastan's national animal is the Parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Kirkockastan is ranked 63,315^th in the world and 866^th in the Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 43,366.6 Standard Monetary Units.