The Dictatorship of Path to Phyresis is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Elesh Norn with an iron fist, and renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, aversion to nipples, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.18 billion Path to Phyresisians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Phyrexia. The average income tax rate is 62.3%.

The sizeable but inefficient Path to Phyresisian economy, worth 75.5 trillion Oils 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Trout Farming. 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 63,948 Oils, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst, the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors, it's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when Path to Phyresis offered the words "peace be upon you", and tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Path to Phyresis's national animal is the Vorinclex.

Path to Phyresis is ranked 167,786^th in the world and 60^th in Eientei Gensokyo for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 172.99 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.