The Empire of Rototornik is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Senior-General Ivan Mordvinov with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, soft-spoken computers, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 26.095 billion 'Tornikians 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 is primarily concerned with Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Miscarcand. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient 'Tornikian economy, worth an astonishing 22,213 trillion Torniks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 a breathtaking 851,252 Torniks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, street cleaners are noticeably glum during jubilee celebrations, and the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Rototornik's national animal is the Nigershrimp, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

Rototornik is ranked 331^st in the world and 18^th in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 220.75 law-abiding acts per hour.