The Republic of Gold Sniffers is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 429 million Sniffersians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Taradre. The average income tax rate is 12.8%.

The thriving Sniffersian economy, worth 36.3 trillion Valuable Papers a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 84,664 Valuable Papers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations, immigrants who don't like the taste of Sniffersian Turnip Chips are immediately deported, crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country, and judges are all-powerful. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gold Sniffers's national animal is the Raccoon, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gold Sniffers is ranked 135,856^th in the world and 11^th in Orthodox Radical Occupational Republic for Safest, scoring 66.81 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.