The Dictatorship of Sackballs is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Spleens Anderson with an iron fist, and renowned for its aversion to nipples, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 5.452 billion Sackballses are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sackford. The average income tax rate is 90.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sackballsian economy, worth 648 trillion balls 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 Tourism, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 118,949 balls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's TV shows are having a gay old time, the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them, the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?", and the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sackballs's national animal is the axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Sackism.

Sackballs is ranked 13,283^rd in the world and 1^st in Sackballs The Region for Highest Food Quality, scoring 142.41 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.