The Totally Independent Nation of Spratly Islands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Queen Jia Ming with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.225 billion Sprats 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Itu Aba. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sprat economy, worth 362 trillion Yuan a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 112,284 Yuan, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, Spratly Islands is increasingly belligerent on the international stage, and pollsters are out of a job as elections have been cancelled. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spratly Islands's national animal is the Feral Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spratly Islands is ranked 18,507^th in the world and 243^rd in 10000 Islands for Safest, scoring 114.51 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.