The Sinaitic Covenant of The Children of Gerizim is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by High Priest Abed ben Asher ben Matzliach with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.021 billion Samaritans 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ࠒࠓࠉࠕ ࠋࠅࠆࠄ. The average income tax rate is 79.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Samaritan economy, worth 131 trillion Sapphires a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 65,001 Sapphires, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII', and a life spent suffering in silence is considered noble. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Children of Gerizim's national animal is the Goliath Heron, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Samaritanism.

The Children of Gerizim is ranked 89,505^th in the world and 74^th in Fifth Empire for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,790.83 on the Gilded Widget Scale.