The Former Native Councillor of Tooru Mutsuki is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and compulsory military service. The cynical, devout population of 15.806 billion Japaneses are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo. The average income tax rate is 32.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Japanese economy, worth 603 trillion Yen a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,192 Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Tokyo make great practice for foreign snipers, Tokyo has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea, and the typical murderer weighs 150kg and has hairy arms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Tooru Mutsuki's national animal is the Japanese Green Pheasant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Shintoism.

Tooru Mutsuki is ranked 163,903^rd in the world and 5^th in Warzone Africa for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 69.42 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.