The Empire of Demencia is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Johann with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, strictly enforced bedtime, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 25.237 billion Demencians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Demencia City. The average income tax rate is 81.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Demencian economy, worth a remarkable 2,916 trillion Nuroes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 115,568 Nuroes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer, the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble, advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references, and the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Demencia's national animal is the Kitteh, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is a major religion.

Demencia is ranked 28,896^th in the world and 50^th in Yggdrasil for Lowest Crime Rates, with 83.38 law-abiding acts per hour.