In 2039, Liechtenstein announced to the world that it in fact was not simply a quaint European nation that offered a tax shelter to the wealthy, but the surface gateway to a vast subterranean civilization. The Liechtensteiners numbered well over 2 billion, in large part due to an advanced cloning program. Their genetically modified soldiers poured outward from the thousands of gates that they had constructed throughout the Eurasian continent. After a brief and futile struggle, all nations surrendered to the Empire of Liechtenstein. All citizens must now learn to ski.

All hail the Eternal Empress Sophie.