The Empire of Byzan tium is a small, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 32 million Byzantines love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 32.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Byzantine economy, worth 1.02 trillion Drachmeses a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 31,856 Drachmeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs, untold millions of Drachmeses are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme, and funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Byzan tium's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Byzan tium is ranked 155,114^th in the world and 1^st in Greece for Greeks for Highest Poor Incomes, with 23,403.35 Standard Monetary Units.