The Colony of New Sandsnionion is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 4.039 billion New Sandsnionionians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sand City. The average income tax rate is 73.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong New Sandsnionionian economy, worth 277 trillion sands a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,803 sands, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in New Sandsnionion, and crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Sandsnionion's national animal is the sandman, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Sandsnionion is ranked 13,711^th in the world and 353^rd in The East Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,305.57 pounds of wildlife per square mile.