The National People's Republic of S state is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sebastian Petrovich Schmitd with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 4.453 billion S stateans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of new pressburg. The average income tax rate is 86.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong S statean economy, worth 335 trillion Marks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 75,144 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, the S statean Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, citizens are now allowed to discuss whether Sebastian Petrovich Schmitd is the greatest ruler ever or simply the greatest ruler of this generation, and where there's smoke there's the S statean Forestry Department. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. S state's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Secularism.

S state is ranked 38,576^th in the world and 317^th in Europeia for Smartest Citizens, with 49.83 quips per hour.