The Holy Black Sea Empire of Schardonia is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Cecylia Rzeczkowcka with an iron fist, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, frequent executions, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.655 billion Schardonians 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 government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Industry, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Menara. The average income tax rate is 82.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Schardonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,679 trillion Ingots a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 296,949 Ingots, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

"Cecylia Rzeczkowcka got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime, it's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when Schardonia offered the words "peace be upon you", and Dàguó is simultaneously dead and alive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Schardonia's national animal is the Armadillo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Schardonia is ranked 3,321^st in the world and 11^th in Christians for Highest Average Incomes, with 296,949.94 Standard Monetary Units.