The Democratic Republic of Suvmia-18 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its burgeoning Grey Whale population. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 4.37 billion Suvmia-18ians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.7%.

The very strong Suvmia-18ian economy, worth 217 trillion Euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 49,727 Euros, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 216,025 per year while the poor average 7,257, a ratio of 29.8 to 1.

You can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg, rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, and the government has declared that sharing is uncaring. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Suvmia-18's national animal is the Grey Whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Suvmia-18 is ranked 73,619^th in the world and 5^th in The Ascendancy Federation for Most Patriotic, with 19.08 flags saluted per person per day.