The Empire of The first order I is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 213 million romanuses love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 32.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped interitus economy, worth 7.30 trillion pecunias 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Arms 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 34,286 pecunias, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand, children are terrified that the 'flying police monster' will come to take them away in the night, and building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The first order I's national animal is the leo.

The first order I is ranked 118,693^rd in the world and 145^th in The Black Hawks for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 2,669.86 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.