The Community of Sahbido is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 842 million Sahbidoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sahbidoan economy, worth 54.0 trillion francs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is 64,109 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arms manufacturers and mild-mannered journalists have been outed as superheroes, travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing, fistfighting vigilantes tend to suffer a lot of gunshot wounds, and signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sahbido's national animal is the cobra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sahbido is ranked 119,104^th in the world and 4,910^th in The North Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 17.33 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.