The Empire of Sapphirium is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its national health service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 122 million Sapphiriumians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 52.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Sapphiriumian economy, worth 7.47 trillion Sapphires a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 61,251 Sapphires, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign invaders are putting Sapphiriumian lab rats out of a job, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder, and 90% of active duty SAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sapphirium's national animal is the Sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sapphirium is ranked 124,008^th in the world and 2^nd in The Sapphirelands for Highest Average Incomes, with 61,251.61 Standard Monetary Units.