The Colony of New Sandsnionion is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 4.056 billion New Sandsnionionians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sand City. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong New Sandsnionionian economy, worth 278 trillion sands a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,718 sands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

From the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in New Sandsnionion, crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens, the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, and conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Sandsnionion's national animal is the sandman, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Sandsnionion is ranked 192,927^th in the world and 3,199^th in The East Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.68 kickbacks per hour.