The Empire of Emu-Land is a large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 62 million Emumins love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 72.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Emu-Landian economy, worth 2.82 trillion Reais a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 45,470 Reais, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons', sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming, and t-shirts displaying a photo of Leader performing the Full-Monty are selling out. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Emu-Land's national animal is the Emu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Emu-Land is ranked 96,017^th in the world and 94^th in Eurth for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,595.63 on the Gilded Widget Scale.