The Empire of Morteland is a large, efficient nation, remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 96 million Mortelandians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 25.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Mortelandian economy, worth 6.61 trillion Bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 68,835 Bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events, much of Morteland's computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Morteland's national animal is the Cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Morteland is ranked 80,368^th in the world and 2,239^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.