The United States of Sapien-Zustand is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, complete lack of prisons, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 666 million Sapien-Zustandians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sapien-Zustandian economy, worth 103 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 154,840 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,403,732 per year while the poor average 2,001, a ratio of 701 to 1.

Tour guides tell passengers that there is beautiful architecture just behind the two-hundred-foot concrete walls, citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, and it's best not to ask what goes into Berlin Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sapien-Zustand's national animal is the Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sapien-Zustand is ranked 280,147^th in the world and 5,882^nd in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -341.43 on the Scary Big Number Scale.