The Empire of the Khagan of Hulagu is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Timur Khan III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 33.062 billion Hulaguans 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kara-Farsi. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 27.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Hulaguan economy, worth a remarkable 5,204 trillion anvils a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 157,424 anvils, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 662,369 per year while the poor average 24,279, a ratio of 27.3 to 1.

Companies balk at paying their workers, possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence, serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, and monks aren't the only ones who take vows of silence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hulagu's national animal is the przvalsky horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Christianity Islam and Judaism.

Hulagu is ranked 256,711^th in the world and 150^th in The World Rearranged for Nicest Citizens, with 0.94 average smiles per day.