The Most Holy Empire of Routcher is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Tywin II with an iron fist, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, infamous sell-swords, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 15.388 billion Routcherians 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, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saint Mary. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Routcherian economy, worth a remarkable 1,617 trillion Crowns a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 105,108 Crowns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The national economy makes a whole lot of nothing, there's no representation without taxation, finders keepers is the law of the land, and the sound of silence from abandoned Violetist temples is deafening. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Routcher's national animal is the Stag, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Orthodox Church of Routcher.

Routcher is ranked 21,379^th in the world and 58^th in Fifth Empire for Highest Poor Incomes, with 88,781.86 Standard Monetary Units.