The Sushi Republic of Southeast Aarde is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by President Suriya Turner with a fair hand, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.538 billion Southeast Aardeans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Koi City. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Southeast Aardean economy, worth 287 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 113,124 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, Southeast Aardeans refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, and eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southeast Aarde's national animal is the Fsocernaib Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Southeast Aarde is ranked 31,560^th in the world and 4^th in OrangeJuice for Lowest Crime Rates, with 81.98 law-abiding acts per hour.