The Empire of Emeraldberg is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 108 million Emeraldbergians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Emeraldbergian economy, worth 3.62 trillion Auroras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 33,477 Auroras , and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent, when conspiracy theorists talk about "government moles" they're referring to mysteriously mobile skin lesions, hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times, and a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Emeraldberg's national animal is the Wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Emeraldberg is ranked 129,418^th in the world and 305^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 825.31 on the Gilded Widget Scale.