The Empire of The Death Anecdote is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Baridi Vivace with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 12.145 billion Death Anecdotans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Inferno Lykos. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Death Anecdotean economy, worth 896 trillion Gurts a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 73,782 Gurts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, Baridi Vivace has been nicknamed 'Robomop', Baridi Vivace is considering changing the Death Anecdotean flag to one with more glitter, and drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Death Anecdote's national animal is the Raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Death Anecdote is ranked 1,630^th in the world and 35^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Primitive, scoring 196.9 on the Scary Big Number Scale.