The Holy Empire of Sepentus is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 275 million Sepentusians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.4%.

The all-consuming Sepentusian economy, worth 25.9 trillion Blemflarcks a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 94,074 Blemflarcks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 362,394 per year while the poor average 16,797, a ratio of 21.6 to 1.

Twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, Leader's Twitcher account is typically used to share Japanese Spider Crab memes rather than government policy, the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation, and strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sepentus's national animal is the Japanese Spider Crab, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sepentus is ranked 64,440^th in the world and 1,522^nd in The North Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 94,074.45 Standard Monetary Units.