The Matriarchy of Saarburg is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ritual sacrifices, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 417 million Saarburgers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Unterstadt. The average income tax rate is 54.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Saarburger economy, worth 33.7 trillion saarzmarks 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. 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 80,715 saarzmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic, UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news, all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, and the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saarburg's national animal is the bunyip, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Saarburg is ranked 264,688^th in the world and 20^th in Innoxiland for Safest, scoring 13.47 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.