The Social Experiment of Syretain is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, prohibition of alcohol, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, democratic, humorless, devout population of 3.913 billion Syretainians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Syre. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Syretainian economy, worth 601 trillion Tears a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 153,755 Tears, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and many politicians are serving jail time for minor drug offenses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Syretain's national animal is the Axis deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Syretain is ranked 281,915^th in the world and 10,769^th in Lazarus for Most Primitive, scoring -371.23 on the Scary Big Number Scale.