The United States of Sapien-Zustand is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, flagrant waste-dumping, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 717 million Sapien-Zustandians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sapien-Zustandian economy, worth 114 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 160,277 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,453,026 per year while the poor average 2,071, a ratio of 701 to 1.

Half of Sapien-Zustand just lost MyFace after space debris collided with a major communications satellite, it's considered providence that the political lexicon contains a syrup of company slogans, hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead", and candidates celebrate "free speech" by spraying champagne all over anyone who shows up to a rally. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sapien-Zustand's national animal is the Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sapien-Zustand is ranked 26,843^rd in the world and 804^th in The North Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,067.14 on the Gilded Widget Scale.