The Standard Military Cartridge of S Patrone is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, vat-grown people, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 3.864 billion S Patroneans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.4%.

The frighteningly efficient S Patronean economy, worth 438 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Gambling, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 113,582 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 355,631 per year while the poor average 27,814, a ratio of 12.8 to 1.

Teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty, the government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore, pro-democracy regime change has been avoided, and mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. S Patrone's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

S Patrone is ranked 158,743^rd in the world and 23^rd in Krupp Industriekomplex for Largest Populations, with 3.86 billion capita.