The Community of Saarenmaan Information Agency is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic, devout population of 615 million Saarenmaan Information Agencyians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Spirituality, and Education. The average income tax rate is 48.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Saarenmaan Information Agencyian economy, worth 18.1 trillion News a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 29,485 News, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and surveillance cameras are banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Saarenmaan Information Agency's national animal is the Events, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saarenmaan Information Agency is ranked 43,401^st in the world and 561^st in Europe for Nicest Citizens, with 17.36 average smiles per day.