The Republic of Gold Sniffers is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, triple-decker prams, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 343 million Sniffersians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Taradre. The average income tax rate is 9.3%.

The very strong Sniffersian economy, worth 29.2 trillion Valuable Papers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,988 Valuable Papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies, the citizenship exam requires years of study to actually pass, everyone apparently sends Leader hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child, and science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gold Sniffers's national animal is the Raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gold Sniffers is ranked 255,004^th in the world and 1,147^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 1.02 average smiles per day.