The Oceanic Communes of New Samon is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its hatred of cheese, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 11.927 billion Samons enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Samonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,974 trillion pearls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 165,553 pearls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest national park is visited by more sharks than people, sweat stains are proof of political acumen, windows in New Samon City don't have much of a view, and it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up. Crime is totally unknown. New Samon's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

New Samon is ranked 1,977^th in the world and 1^st in Solidarity for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 12,929.88 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.