The Sushi Republic of Southeast Aarde is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Suriya Turner with a fair hand, and renowned for its smutty television, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.61 billion Southeast Aardeans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Koi City. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Southeast Aardean economy, worth 294 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 112,906 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles, flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor, President Suriya Turner is quite hard to get a hold of, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southeast Aarde's national animal is the Fsocernaib Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Southeast Aarde is ranked 284,491^st in the world and 34^th in OrangeJuice for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -14.28 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.