The Republic of Soniala is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 633 million Sonialans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Sonialan economy, worth 42.6 trillion kronor a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,279 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across Soniala, the government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, the wreckages of bombed planes that litter Soniala are highly popular tourist destinations, and code enforcement officers circle wealthy Sonialans like vultures. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soniala's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soniala is ranked 20,350^th in the world and 810^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 92 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.