The Borderlands of Emranian Fractured Outlands is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.747 billion Emranians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 52.6%.

The thriving Emranian economy, worth 129 trillion zilches a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 73,982 zilches, with the richest citizens earning 9.5 times as much as the poorest.

Immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border, fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, and telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Emranian Fractured Outlands's national animal is the vulyote, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Solthuvism.

Emranian Fractured Outlands is ranked 127,042^nd in the world and 256^th in Starlight for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 1,322.85 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.