The Reformed Colonial Empire of Konid is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Emperor Ezekiel Johnston with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.281 billion Konidis 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mechanus. The average income tax rate is 75.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Konidi economy, worth 597 trillion Credit Notes 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, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. 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 181,986 Credit Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone, military instructors tire of being asked for another bedtime story by seven-year-old conscripts, exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed, and 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Konid's national animal is the Konidi Falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Orthodox Kyarthism.

Konid is ranked 93,409^th in the world and 12^th in Bresima for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 44,040.85 Standard Monetary Units.