The Holy Empire of Inscribia is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 333 million Inscribians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.9%.

The all-consuming Inscribian economy, worth 28.9 trillion Inscribian marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 86,713 Inscribian marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 265,294 per year while the poor average 21,953, a ratio of 12.1 to 1.

Getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults, owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions, flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug, and arbitration is mightier than the sword. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Inscribia's national animal is the oryx, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Inscribia is ranked 49,384^th in the world and 395^th in the West Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 27.79 flags saluted per person per day.