The United Socialist States of Samenith is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Gustavo Fring with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, devout population of 4.285 billion Samenithians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Los Pollos Hermanos. The average income tax rate is 85.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Samenithian economy, worth 404 trillion Silver coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 94,503 Silver coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Rocket boots and thermal detonators have become standard-issue military gear, prison visits increase substantially during election years, worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts, and demand for gourmet white truffles is on the rise. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Samenith's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Samenith is ranked 224,765^th in the world and 4,274^th in the South Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 48.52 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.