The Empire of Deep Purple is a mammoth, cultured nation, remarkable for its feral children, pith helmet sales, and compulsory vegetarianism. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.92 billion Deep Purpleans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hertford. The average income tax rate is 60.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Deep Purplean economy, worth 775 trillion smokes 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, 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 97,873 smokes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, all the playground's a stage for Deep Purplean schoolchildren, there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees his shadow, and fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deep Purple's national animal is the water.

Deep Purple is ranked 174,848^th in the world and 3^rd in London for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 65.19 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.