The Federation of Sokoviii is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 495 million Sokoviiians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sokoviiian economy, worth 42.1 trillion Sokoliks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,149 Sokoliks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

They who do not work shall not eat, citizens must pay to enjoy Sokoviii's pristine beaches, a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum, and moonshine has made a resurgence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sokoviii's national animal is the Sokol, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sokoviii is ranked 92,911^th in the world and 2,548^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.