The Matriarchy of The Empress Authority is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Mother Mondori with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 21.139 billion Authoritans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Victoria. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Empress Authoritan economy, worth a remarkable 2,599 trillion Chibits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 122,970 Chibits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, blue bloods are welcome in The Empress Authority, the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers, and fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Empress Authority's national animal is the Spotted Hound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of our Mother.

The Empress Authority is ranked 239,194^th in the world and 8,926^th in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -4.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.