The Socialist Confederacy of Sigumastan is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by President Gabriel Aurani with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 3.894 billion Sigumastanis are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Teranabad. The average income tax rate is 93.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sigumastani economy, worth 596 trillion Sigumastani Rupees 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 153,309 Sigumastani Rupees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sigumastani watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, nine out of ten citizens of Sigumastan answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation, courtrooms can be a little sketchy, and "President Gabriel Aurani got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sigumastan's national animal is the Marmot, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sigumastan is ranked 182,276^th in the world and 90^th in Sun Tzu the Art of War for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 75.61 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.