The Holy Empire of Byzant is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Justinian and Theodora with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, avowedly heterosexual populace, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 33.457 billion Byzantians, 32.868 billion of whom are zombies, are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Constantinople. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Byzantian economy, worth a remarkable 9,441 trillion bezants a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 219,139 bezants, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

Customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity, loan operators are losing interest due to lost interest, politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities, and the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Byzant's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Orthodoxy.

Byzant is ranked 317,137^th in the world and 6,128^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -37.64 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.