The Imperial Senate of Comitia Curiata is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical, devout population of 3.753 billion Senators 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperial Senate. The average income tax rate is 78.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant a Senator economy, worth 48.7 trillion Influences a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 12,986 Influences, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The big red machine has ground to a halt, foreign envoys that want to visit Comitia Curiata now have to navigate real minefields in addition to the political ones, Comitia Curiata has designated Imperial Senate as its capital city, and search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Comitia Curiata's national animal is the Ouroboros, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Comitia Curiata is ranked 226,665^th in the world and 2^nd in Comitia Curiata for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,111.78 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.