The Republic of Red Eminence is a titanic, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and zero percent divorce rate. The quiet, industrious population of 21.652 billion Red Eminenceans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 34.0%.

The strong Red Eminencean economy, worth a remarkable 1,286 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,401 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, and Death's-head Hawkmoth is one of the most popular forenames in Red Eminence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Red Eminence's national animal is the Death's-head Hawkmoth, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Red Eminence is ranked 230,201^st in the world and 1^st in Brest for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.81 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.