The Star Empire of Spartan Termopylae is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Basileus Augustus Ceasar with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 35.637 billion Spartan Termopylaeans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order and Healthcare also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sparta. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Spartan Termopylaean economy, worth a remarkable 4,672 trillion leonidas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 131,118 leonidas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back, the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, and virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spartan Termopylae's national animal is the xerxes, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Basilism.

Spartan Termopylae is ranked 125,454^th in the world and 2,986^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 941.24 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.