The Empire of Ancient Babylon is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Nebuzar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.283 billion Ancient Babylonians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Babylon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ancient Babylonian economy, worth 206 trillion Dong a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 160,704 Dong, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 660,928 per year while the poor average 25,762, a ratio of 25.7 to 1.

Elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police, manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job, and the government would rather execute a hundred innocent men than let one guilty one appeal a verdict. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ancient Babylon's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Holy Order of the Crown.

Ancient Babylon is ranked 34,790^th in the world and 36^th in Albastru for Most Cultured, scoring 77 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.