The Armed Reich of Svarttjern is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Kaiser Spock with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, public floggings, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 27.996 billion Svarttjernians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heimdal. The average income tax rate is 18.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Svarttjernian economy, worth a remarkable 5,766 trillion Reichsmarks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 205,991 Reichsmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pallbearers at military funerals dive for cover when they hear the three-volley salute, nations across the world are quick to praise Kaiser Spock's good looks and intellectual prowess, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, and collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Svarttjern's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is agnosticism.

Svarttjern is ranked 38,926^th in the world and 7^th in Lux Immortalem for Lowest Crime Rates, with 78.15 law-abiding acts per hour.