The Commonwealth of Saint Roberts is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Presidium with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.053 billion Commonwealthers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saints City. The average income tax rate is 85.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Saint Robertsian economy, worth 141 trillion credits a year, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 134,220 credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles, grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, and you need a signed affidavit from a registered psychiatrist to claim that you have crazy low prices. Crime is totally unknown. Saint Roberts's national animal is the Red Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is atheism.

Saint Roberts is ranked 11,221^st in the world and 316^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 10,224.53 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.