The Making of Empty Promises is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its burgeoning wolf population. The quiet, industrious population of 9.596 billion Empty Promisesians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 30.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Empty Promisesian economy, worth 354 trillion Credits a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 36,939 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, and organ donation is compulsory. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Empty Promises's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Empty Promises is ranked 159,421^st in the world and 69^th in The Planet Renooth Frontier for Most Primitive, scoring -59.16 on the Scary Big Number Scale.