The Empire of Kordavia is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its public floggings, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 3.775 billion Kordavians 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 is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Social Policy and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Altburgheim. The average income tax rate is 37.3%.

The powerhouse Kordavian economy, worth 420 trillion crowns a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 111,370 crowns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Protests are prohibited from blocking traffic, Kordavians are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom, international trade is a sticky issue, and asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kordavia's national animal is the ironclaw eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Kordavia is ranked 292,133^rd in the world and 60^th in Rushmore for Nicest Citizens, with 0.49 average smiles per day.