The Federal Empire of The Scarlet Eagle is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Anaximander Blachkov with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.607 billion Scarlet Americans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blachkov DC. The average income tax rate is 96.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Scarlet American economy, worth a remarkable 3,174 trillion Imperial Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 217,298 Imperial Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, and protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Scarlet Eagle's national animal is the Imperial Scarlet Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Scarlet Eagle Spiritism.

The Scarlet Eagle is ranked 2,005^th in the world and 1^st in Riftan Alliance for Lowest Crime Rates, with 144.74 law-abiding acts per hour.