The Empire of Ever Testing is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Smog Wawelski with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, ban on automobiles, and smutty television. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.541 billion Ever Testians 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 large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wawel. The average income tax rate is 79.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ever Testingian economy, worth 213 trillion obwarzaneks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,509 obwarzaneks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Smog Wawelski's former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht, the nation is in perpetual campaign mode, the government loves seeing the little people fight, and cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ever Testing's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Mighty Yeast.

Ever Testing is ranked 11,712^th in the world and 368^th in the South Pacific for Smartest Citizens, with 85.54 quips per hour.