The Bureaucratic Federation of Sentinels Mazzaria is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Lord Anthony Valeska with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 873 million Urfians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Administration, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arcania. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 35.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Urfian economy, worth 128 trillion Federal dollars a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 147,280 Federal dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 592,370 per year while the poor average 24,506, a ratio of 24.2 to 1.

All writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience, the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene, and creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sentinels Mazzaria's national animal is the New Urf Fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sentinels Mazzaria is ranked 280,566^th in the world and 73^rd in Imperial World Nations for Most Beautiful Environments, with 85.11 pounds of wildlife per square mile.