The Second Round of Sarcand is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 19.08 billion Sarcandians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sarcandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,368 trillion Secret Red Bottles 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. 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 124,111 Secret Red Bottles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

The government invades its allies more than its enemies, construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, ill and injured visitors in Sarcand have to walk it off until they return home, and the first sword of Sarcand does not run. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sarcand's national animal is the Flower Pot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sarcand is ranked 138,221^st in the world and 5,752^nd in Lazarus for Safest, scoring 64.5 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.