The Federation of Sebasticook is a huge, safe nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 420 million Sebasticookians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nokomis. The average income tax rate is 34.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Sebasticookian economy, worth 32.6 trillion Sebasticook Chaplets a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 77,689 Sebasticook Chaplets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation, sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers, and people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sebasticook's national animal is the Black Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sebasticook is ranked 70,012^th in the world and 1,943^rd in The North Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 3,108.48 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.