The Republic of Samae is a mammoth, genial nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, daily referendums, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate population of 7.177 billion Samaeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 47.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Samaean economy, worth 231 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,209 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft, endangered species are effective hostages against the Samaean military, the law forbids arson, murder, and low-quality cheese, and the Department of Health is snowed under by requests for crisper ciabatta and tenderer tagliatelle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Samae's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Samae is ranked 33,760^th in the world and 3^rd in Dimmersun for Least Corrupt Governments, with 94 percentage of bribes refused.