The Founder of The Sportsbook is a colossal, pleasant nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 9.936 billion Sportsbookians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.1%.

The strong Sportsbookian economy, worth 573 trillion Sportsbucks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 57,707 Sportsbucks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 219,712 per year while the poor average 10,499, a ratio of 20.9 to 1.

Many rural villagers have never been more than a day's horse-ride from their birthplace, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, anti-government web sites are springing up, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony. Crime is moderate. The Sportsbook's national animal is the Gambler.

The Sportsbook is ranked 198,975^th in the world and 8^th in The Sportsbook for Safest, scoring 42.35 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.