The Queen's State of Saint Foss is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 30.248 billion Saint Fossians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 72.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Saint Fossian economy, worth 314 trillion betales 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 slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Pizza Delivery, and Furniture Restoration. 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 10,406 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, and Saint Foss has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Foss's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saint Foss is ranked 94,415^th in the world and 1^st in Seattle for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.58 law-abiding acts per hour.