The Protectorate of Sussurum is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The democratic population of 301 million Sussurans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 34.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Sussuran economy, worth 11.7 trillion UCP Credits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Soda Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,018 UCP Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format, and fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sussurum's national animal is the tortoise, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sussurum is ranked 179,649^th in the world and 12^th in United Confederation of Planets for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,035.22 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.