The Dominion of Sertraline is a small, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and national health service. The hard-working, cynical, devout population of 36 million Sertralineans 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 relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 19.4%.

The thriving Sertralinean economy, worth 2.57 trillion pills a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Average income is 71,365 pills, with the richest citizens earning 8.3 times as much as the poorest.

The navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, war is made in the name of love, streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all, and minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sertraline's national animal is the ant, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sertraline is ranked 56,369^th in the world and 12^th in The Apolean Frontiers for Most Patriotic, with 24.9 flags saluted per person per day.