The Holy Socialist Empire of Non-Believers is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Emperor Sweemer II with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.236 billion Non-Believers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rio de Janeiro. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Non-Believer economy, worth 164 trillion rubles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Trout Farming. 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 132,812 rubles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors, geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns, no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, and one-upping each other in conversation is strictly prohibited. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Non-Believers's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is State-Mandated Secularism.

Non-Believers is ranked 281,055^th in the world and 5,210^th in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 27.44 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.