The People's Republic of Sinodi is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 842 million Sinodians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dongchen. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sinodian economy, worth 105 trillion Gold Coins a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,167 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A stitch in time could see you serving nine, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, the news is showing footage of Leader bullying an old man to the point of tears, and prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sinodi's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sinodi is ranked 21,552^nd in the world and 800^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 88.59 law-abiding acts per hour.