The Queen's State of Puerto de Santa Maria is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.31 billion Puerto de Santa Marians 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 tiny, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Industry and Education are also considered important, while Welfare and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.7%.

The thriving Puerto de Santa Marian economy, worth 669 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 34,659 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 100,376 per year while the poor average 9,483, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Nudity is frowned upon, elections have been outlawed, and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime is a serious problem. Puerto de Santa Maria's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Puerto de Santa Maria is ranked 262,992^nd in the world and 6^th in Plague for Lowest Crime Rates, with 43.66 law-abiding acts per hour.