The Republic of Southern Indochina is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and daily referendums. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 280 million Southern Indochinans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 17.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Southern Indochinan economy, worth 18.9 trillion Uses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 67,474 Uses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Sports club owners are having a moneyball, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, and there's more hugging than talking in most talk shows. Crime is totally unknown. Southern Indochina's national animal is the Elephant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Southern Indochina is ranked 280,685^th in the world and 5,108^th in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 0.52 flags saluted per person per day.