The Self-Proclaimed Empire of AP0CALYPSE is a behemoth, orderly nation, ruled by Harbinger with an iron fist, and renowned for its remarkably easy parental licensing program, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 51.26 billion AP0CALYPSEians 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 tiny, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Terminus. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient AP0CALYPSEian economy, worth an astonishing 21,680 trillion bloody severed fingers 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 Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 amazing 422,958 bloody severed fingers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto, songs of praise to Harbinger are filled with coded messages from the resistance, deli patrons examine their roast beef for undetonated explosives, and stoogery and pratfalls are about as scathingly clever as AP0CALYPSEian humor gets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. AP0CALYPSE's national animal is the bio-organic weapon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cult of the Coming Darkness.

AP0CALYPSE is ranked 331,843^rd in the world and 41^st in Antarctica for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -33.45 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.