The Republic of Sudholm is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 494 million Sudholmeren are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nihæn. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Sudholmisk economy, worth 23.8 trillion skillings a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 48,192 skillings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, employers are keenest on employees who lack family values, statues of famous citizens are erected or demolished on a purely partisan basis, and discarded pennies litter the streets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sudholm's national animal is the alg, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sudholm is ranked 55,397^th in the world and 791^st in the Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 135.35 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.