The Empire of Stodenia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 260 million Stodenians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 23.1%.

The Stodenian economy, worth 12.2 trillion Stodenish Marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 46,781 Stodenish Marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Pros are the new cons, would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here", the education system has gotten a recent boost in spending, and agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Stodenia's national animal is the Stodenish Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Stodenia is ranked 167,119^th in the world and 202^nd in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Highest Food Quality, scoring 14.16 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.