The Empire of TheBuringFlame2 is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its daily referendums, triple-decker prams, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 791 million TheBuringFlame2ians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The tiny, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.6%.

The powerhouse TheBuringFlame2ian economy, worth 48.8 trillion dollas a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 61,730 dollas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 299,260 per year while the poor average 7,370, a ratio of 40.6 to 1.

Every week is blindness awareness week, looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities, nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines, and computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. TheBuringFlame2's national animal is the lion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

TheBuringFlame2 is ranked 8,379^th in the world and 7^th in The Order of the Grey Wardens for Fattest Citizens, with 19.17 Obesity Rate.