The Protectorate of The Pulmorian Empire is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, zero percent divorce rate, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.209 billion Pulmorian Empireans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Pulmorian Empirean economy, worth 19.9 trillion kronor 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Gambling, and Furniture Restoration. 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 9,015 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, government ministers claim to ride dragons to work, and the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Pulmorian Empire's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Pulmorian Empire is ranked 277,281^st in the world and 21^st in Edmundian Empire for Highest Food Quality, scoring 6.23 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.