The Commonwealth of Johansson is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Anderson Norberg with an iron fist, and notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 5.37 billion Sonnians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Octocity. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sonnian economy, worth 703 trillion ondrocoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 130,978 ondrocoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks, no one is worried about government policies any more, years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details, and billions of ondrocoins are being poured into a space program. Crime is totally unknown. Johansson's national animal is the Griffin, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Christianity.

Johansson is ranked 120,898^th in the world and 104^th in Valley of Peace for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.77 law-abiding acts per hour.