The New Republic of SAmbUca is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Amelia Watson with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, sprawling nuclear power plants, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.435 billion SAmbUcans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canberra. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sambian economy, worth 480 trillion Gold Bars a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 139,968 Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading Sambian justice, citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow, grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines, and euthanasia is illegal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SAmbUca's national animal is the Jangahordian, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Canberra Catholicism.

SAmbUca is ranked 6,365^th in the world and 1^st in The House of Buca for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 50,091.98 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.