The Very First Page of Sateru is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Your Silhouette with an even hand, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, prohibition of alcohol, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 2.04 billion Sateri are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Walls of Insincerity. The average income tax rate is 33.9%.

The thriving Sateri economy, worth 141 trillion albums a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 69,228 albums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, official Sermon-Free Zones are set-up around the nation's hotels, and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sateru's national animal is the cat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Enchantment.

Sateru is ranked 224,164^th in the world and 324^th in Astoria for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -5.48 on the Clooney Contribution Index.