The Matriarchy of The Empress Authority is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mother Mondori with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, keen interest in outer space, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 15.96 billion Authoritans 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 juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Victoria. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Empress Authoritan economy, worth a remarkable 1,945 trillion Chibits 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 121,882 Chibits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, loss of the ability to speak is a common affliction of the elderly, and visiting the best Empress Authoritan restaurants requires keeping a visa on file. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Empress Authority's national animal is the Spotted Hound, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of our Mother.

The Empress Authority is ranked 275,816^th in the world and 10,591^st in Osiris for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 7,312.98 Standard Monetary Units.