The Unfathomable Power of Steamhammer is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Coal Cokes with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, ritual sacrifices, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 30.728 billion Steamhammerians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 25.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Steamhammerian economy, worth a remarkable 5,361 trillion steams 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automobile 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 an impressive 174,489 steams, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun, and citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Steamhammer's national animal is the metal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Steamhammer is ranked 284,444^th in the world and 10,932^nd in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4.46 pounds of wildlife per square mile.