The Empire of Masterian is a mid-sized, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The hard-working, democratic population of 68 million Masterianians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.5%.

The strong Masterianian economy, worth 4.34 trillion MPS a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 63,789 MPS, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 193,536 per year while the poor average 16,343, a ratio of 11.8 to 1.

Bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, bigly crowds of election officials can be spotted at music festivals, the sound of rattles and selfie shots regularly disrupt political debates, and people find it hard to relate to soldiers because of the dehumanising masks they wear. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Masterian's national animal is the hokage, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Masterian is ranked 115,157^th in the world and 1,859^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 58.99 on the Human Development Index.