The Holy Empire of Sufjan Stevens Fans is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 18.6 billion Sufjan Stevens Fans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sufjan Stevens Fansian economy, worth a remarkable 1,695 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 91,141 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Formerly internationally exported goods are now given away for free, the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles, crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination, and hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock". Crime is totally unknown. Sufjan Stevens Fans's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sufjan Stevens Fans is ranked 24,073^rd in the world and 232^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 281.62 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.