The Celestial Empire of Phello is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by God Emperor with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, aversion to nipples, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.33 billion Imperials 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, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Administration, and Law & Order are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Holy Terra. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Imperial economy, worth 907 trillion Denarii a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 209,686 Denarii, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense, corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Phello's national animal is the Night Fury, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Phello is ranked 176,034^th in the world and 420^th in 10000 Islands for Most Pro-Market, scoring 39.22 on the Rand Index.