The United States of Sapien-Zustand is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, sprawling nuclear power plants, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 642 million Sapien-Zustandians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Sapien-Zustandian economy, worth 96.8 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 150,719 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,366,376 per year while the poor average 1,948, a ratio of 701 to 1.

Human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children, the government loves seeing the little people fight, and parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sapien-Zustand's national animal is the Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sapien-Zustand is ranked 23,924^th in the world and 934^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 87 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.