The Kingdom of Sortexya is a titanic, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The democratic population of 20.299 billion Sortexyans enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The medium-sized, moralistic, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 33.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Sortexyan economy, worth 507 trillion Funny nameses a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 24,994 Funny nameses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, and the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sortexya's national animal is the Puppets, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sortexya is ranked 267,505^th in the world and 11^th in Kortexian Tech Barracks for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.07 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.