The Imperium of ColtIus is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Innovatior Calahan Reus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.307 billion ColtIusians 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Mentem. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient ColtIusian economy, worth a remarkable 1,250 trillion Colts 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. 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 impressive 171,185 Colts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts, cute fluffy little Supreme Innovatior Calahan Reuses are increasingly popular exotic pets, asking a cutie their star sign is always met with withering scorn, and international organisations everywhere are united in their condemnation of the nation's zombified military (ColtIus has found 1 easter egg). Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ColtIus's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Innovation.

ColtIus is ranked 324,515^th in the world and 17,416^th in Osiris for Nicest Citizens, with 0.31 average smiles per day.