The Grand Empire of Kranov is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by The Grand Minister with an iron fist, and notable for its frequent executions, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.043 billion Kranovians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kranovia. The average income tax rate is 77.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Kranovian economy, worth 310 trillion Kranovs 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 an impressive 151,742 Kranovs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's declaring that sharing nukes is caring, the Motherland's muscle-bound athletes won 786 medals at the last United Lazarus Games, the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books, and attempted suicide is punishable by public hanging. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kranov's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is State Socalism.

Kranov is ranked 173,363^rd in the world and 7,273^rd in Lazarus for Largest Populations, with 2.04 billion capita.