The People's Republic of San Arys is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Prime Minister with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.992 billion San Arysian are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Citadel. The average income tax rate is 88.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient San Arysian economy, worth a remarkable 1,329 trillion Veenoes 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 120,980 Veenoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery, viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, saying "don't do anything that Prime Minister wouldn't do" doesn't exclude a great deal, and hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment. Crime is totally unknown. San Arys's national animal is the Bison, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

San Arys is ranked 135,342^nd in the world and 5,165^th in Balder for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 718.31 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.