The Republic of San Theing is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 221 million San Theingians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social and economic equality; they tend to view other countries as corrupted by the hollow pageantry of sham elections.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The San Theingian economy, worth 11.7 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 52,916 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, the prisoners of Azkatraz have a new emperor, and an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Theing's national animal is the parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

San Theing is ranked 288,998^th in the world and 2,505^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -10.15 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.