The Peoples Kingdom of Sonsidia is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by King Arthur McDouglas with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, public floggings, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.869 billion Sonsidones 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Kregecia. The average income tax rate is 68.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Sonsidian economy, worth 274 trillion Sonsidian Dollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. 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 an impressive 146,739 Sonsidian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee, genetic researchers have been expelled, trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with, and Sonsidones wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sonsidia's national animal is the Sonsidian Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Arthurism.

Sonsidia is ranked 16,507^th in the world and 26^th in Artificial Solar System for Most Patriotic, with 51.88 flags saluted per person per day.