The Imperium of Warden is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by HIM Charles I with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 31.535 billion Wardenians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Healthcare, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bastion. The average income tax rate is 21.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Wardenian economy, worth a remarkable 4,400 trillion talents a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 139,532 talents, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Dessert dishes make up the Wardenian breakfast menu, freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink, autopsies often involve only cursory examination, and in a fit of passion HIM Charles I has shredded thirty years' worth of petitions. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Warden's national animal is the butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Warden is ranked 31,000^th in the world and 326^th in the Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 139,532.48 Standard Monetary Units.