The Half Awake of A Fake Empire is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, ban on automobiles, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.614 billion Fake Empireans 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 Education, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 31.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Fake Empirean economy, worth 825 trillion nationals 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 an impressive 124,856 nationals, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election, agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government, edutainment video games are taking A Fake Empire's students to the next level, and government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Fake Empire's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

A Fake Empire is ranked 276,818^th in the world and 436^th in Stereo Hearts for Safest, scoring 7.23 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.