The Empire of Morteland is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 125 million Mortelandians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 26.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Mortelandian economy, worth 9.57 trillion Bitcoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 76,578 Bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left, and animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Morteland's national animal is the Cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Morteland is ranked 183,789^th in the world and 4,423^rd in The North Pacific for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 557.91 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.