The Empire of TheBuringFlame2 is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its triple-decker prams, daily referendums, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 797 million TheBuringFlame2ians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The powerhouse TheBuringFlame2ian economy, worth 49.2 trillion dollas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 61,730 dollas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 299,260 per year while the poor average 7,370, a ratio of 40.6 to 1.

Every week is blindness awareness week, looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, and computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. TheBuringFlame2's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

TheBuringFlame2 is ranked 108,904^th in the world and 89^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Most Developed, scoring 59.62 on the Human Development Index.