The United States of Sapien-Zustand is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its vat-grown people, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 701 million Sapien-Zustandians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sapien-Zustandian economy, worth 111 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 158,707 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,438,796 per year while the poor average 2,051, a ratio of 701 to 1.

The nation is committed to nuclear rearmament, the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses, teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, and the government is cutting back on the number of political prisoners executed each year. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sapien-Zustand's national animal is the Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sapien-Zustand is ranked 289,200^th in the world and 6,314^th in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 3.79 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.