The Supreme Imperium of Second Scratch Empire is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chen with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, free-roaming dinosaurs, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate population of 2.329 billion Imperialans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Province of New Coley. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Imperialan economy, worth 229 trillion Standard-Imperial Credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,484 Standard-Imperial Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them, the arms industry is strictly regulated, conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, and military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Second Scratch Empire's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Non-existent.

Second Scratch Empire is ranked 284,262^nd in the world and 311^th in Refugia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.6 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.