The Democratic Republic of Sudlandia is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 377 million Sudlandians 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 Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Běifānghóngchéng. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Sudlandian economy, worth 27.2 trillion Sudlandian Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 72,194 Sudlandian Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and the countryside is shrouded by wind farms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sudlandia's national animal is the Northern Sudlandian Badger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sudlandia is ranked 51,749^th in the world and 9^th in The Etherian International for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,550.42 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.