The Great Shah of Khosrow is a mammoth, orderly nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, infamous sell-swords, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 8.961 billion Khosrowians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 21.5%.

The strong Khosrowian economy, worth 476 trillion drachmas a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 53,227 drachmas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 195,297 per year while the poor average 10,268, a ratio of 19.0 to 1.

The new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code, top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists, and 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force. Khosrow's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Khosrow is ranked 280,206^th in the world and 95^th in Paperwork for Nicest Citizens, with 4 average smiles per day.