The Silver Sultanate of Sydnew is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Syd with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 19.744 billion Sydnewians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Sydton. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.0%.

The all-consuming Sydnewian economy, worth a remarkable 2,488 trillion syds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 126,016 syds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 795,329 per year while the poor average 8,359, a ratio of 95.1 to 1.

Childish pranks are no laughing matter, the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers, every day at 4am Sydnewians wake to pray for the sun to rise, and the rainbow assortment of chemicals in the water has turned the frogs gay. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sydnew's national animal is the snow leopard, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sydistism.

Sydnew is ranked 30,785^th in the world and 1^st in God Only Knows Why This Region Exists for Most Corrupt Governments, with 70.43 kickbacks per hour.