The Holy Empire of Byzant is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Justinian and Theodora with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 41.708 billion Byzantians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Constantinople. The average income tax rate is 4.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Byzantian economy, worth a remarkable 8,674 trillion bezants a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 207,970 bezants, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.5 times as much as the poorest.

Many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators, soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets, arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets, and many of the country's largest dumps can be seen from space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Byzant's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Orthodoxy.

Byzant is ranked 239^th in the world and 13^th in the Rejected Realms for Lowest Crime Rates, with 236.2 law-abiding acts per hour.