The Federation of Sebasticook is a huge, genial nation, notable for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 383 million Sebasticookians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nokomis. The average income tax rate is 33.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Sebasticookian economy, worth 29.1 trillion Sebasticook Chaplets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 76,052 Sebasticook Chaplets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food, whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Sebasticookian Embarrassments, trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, and the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sebasticook's national animal is the Black Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sebasticook is ranked 93,612^th in the world and 2,570^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.