The Empire of Phonociefus is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Enheldor the Wolf King with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.732 billion Phonociefians 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, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City of Wolves. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Phonociefian economy, worth a remarkable 3,760 trillion Gold Coins 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 140,687 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, and trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Phonociefus's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Southern Baptism.

Phonociefus is ranked 10,752^nd in the world and 4^th in Jethnea for Largest Populations, with 26.7 billion capita.