The Southern Resistance of Santa Monica Order is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Oswald Mosley with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, complete absence of social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.028 billion Monicans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santa Monica. The average income tax rate is 87.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Santa Monica Orderian economy, worth a remarkable 1,344 trillion Confederate Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 191,355 Confederate Golds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads, it isn't only obsequious grandees who produce a lot of manure at state occasions, and chain-gangs are often seen toting barges and lifting bales. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Santa Monica Order's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Santa Monica Order is ranked 25,029^th in the world and 26^th in Fifth Empire for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,313.17 on the Gilded Widget Scale.