The Monolithic Holy Empire of Verdunam is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by The Divine Joeyus Caesar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.35 billion Verduniams are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pelum. The average income tax rate is 92.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Verduniam economy, worth a remarkable 3,741 trillion Gold Hetzrems a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 228,857 Gold Hetzrems, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece, politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority"), citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims, and angry disenfranchised AIs attempt to hijack the bodies of comatose hospital patients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verdunam's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Imperial Cult.

Verdunam is ranked 58,136^th in the world and 852^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring 5,186.63 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.