The Imperium of Warden is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by HIM Charles I with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, frequent executions, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.362 billion Wardenians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The relatively small, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Healthcare and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bastion. The average income tax rate is 21.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Wardenian economy, worth a remarkable 3,879 trillion talents a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 147,162 talents, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

New urban roads are threatening city parks, dessert dishes make up the Wardenian breakfast menu, freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink, and autopsies often involve only cursory examination. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Warden's national animal is the butterfly, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Warden is ranked 281,685^th in the world and 3,947^th in the Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -365.56 on the Scary Big Number Scale.