The Classification of Emergency Backup Successor is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and notable for its enslaved workforce, public floggings, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.182 billion Demonyms are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Emergency Backup Successorian economy, worth 326 trillion Currencies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Gambling, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 149,812 Currencies, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,362,757 per year while the poor average 1,874, a ratio of 727 to 1.

Looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities, chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, and retirement apartments house giggling grannies who delightedly watch blank TVs all day long. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Emergency Backup Successor's national animal is the National Animal, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is National Religion.

Emergency Backup Successor is ranked 231,435^th in the world and 1^st in Skivx for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.26 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.