The Free Land of Screams of Agony 2 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, ritual sacrifices, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 3.916 billion Screams of Agony 2ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 15.3%.

The strong Screams of Agony 2ian economy, worth 194 trillion deniers a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,568 deniers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 145,021 per year while the poor average 13,371, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

Broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business, the government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to, homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities, and it's rare to find an unchewed pencil. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. Screams of Agony 2's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Screams of Agony 2 is ranked 222,770^th in the world and 4,030^th in Artificial Solar System for Lowest Crime Rates, with 56.69 law-abiding acts per hour.