The Empire of Prevails is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Emperor George IV with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.258 billion Prevailsians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperial City of Victoria. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Prevailsian economy, worth 193 trillion Royal Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 153,936 Royal Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

School kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, military officers are given medals for disobeying orders, and whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Prevailsian Embarrassments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prevails's national animal is the Sabretooth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orwenism.

Prevails is ranked 250,159^th in the world and 359^th in The League for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -6.32 on the Clooney Contribution Index.