The Empire of Geo9 is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.035 billion Geo9ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.7%.

The very strong Geo9ian economy, worth 76.9 trillion Freedoms a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 74,286 Freedoms, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 230,482 per year while the poor average 18,433, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

Anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead, the letters L, G, and B must never be grouped together, parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park, and mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Geo9's national animal is the Cat, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Geo9 is ranked 245,252^nd in the world and 8^th in kingdom of Greater Esteriae for Largest Populations, with 1.03 billion capita.