The Holy Empire of White Mourning is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Nemo with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.765 billion White Mourningians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaon. The average income tax rate is 49.4%.

The strong White Mourningian economy, worth 570 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 84,271 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes, citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones, maps of the enemy's positions are often covered in blood, and it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. White Mourning's national animal is the wolf and its national religion is Derealization.

White Mourning is ranked 271,523^rd in the world and 10,503^rd in Balder for Most Cultured, scoring 59 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.