The Empire of The 5th Choice is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Yuya Sakaki with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, triple-decker prams, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.115 billion Choicers 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paradise City. The average income tax rate is 55.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient 5th Choicean economy, worth a remarkable 1,100 trillion bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 135,640 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Refugees from other nations are flocking to The 5th Choice's border, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in, and the internet has been placed under government control. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The 5th Choice's national animal is the Performapal Kuribohble, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The 5th Choice is ranked 56,483^rd in the world and 3^rd in The Choices for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 165.91 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.