The Empire of Ancient Babylon is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Nebuzar with an iron fist, and renowned for its flagrant waste-dumping, avowedly heterosexual populace, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.429 billion Ancient Babylonians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Babylon. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Ancient Babylonian economy, worth 230 trillion Dong a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 161,570 Dong, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 627,219 per year while the poor average 28,491, a ratio of 22.0 to 1.

You can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg, mournful opera fans place bouquets of roses at a 3000 capacity parking lot, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, and the government runs a surplus by selling its citizens. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ancient Babylon's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Holy Order of the Crown.

Ancient Babylon is ranked 192,547^th in the world and 38^th in Albastru for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 31.32 on the Bus Surprisal Index.