The Empire of Prometheia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Empress Sophia with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 7.099 billion Prometheans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dynamopolis. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Promethean economy, worth a remarkable 2,530 trillion drachmas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 356,431 drachmas, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,859,148 per year while the poor average 10,285, a ratio of 278 to 1.

Retirement parties now go out with a bang, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, citizens gather eagerly to witness exotic animals being blasted out of cannons, and cigarettes are dead-cheap. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Prometheia's national animal is the orca, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Prometheia is ranked 278,450^th in the world and 445^th in Starlight for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5.93 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.