The State of Santiago de los Caballeros is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of public education, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 19.983 billion Santiago de los Caballerosians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The powerhouse Santiago de los Caballerosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,016 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 50,862 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 192,243 per year while the poor average 9,362, a ratio of 20.5 to 1.

Santiago de los Caballeros has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, the Governor has just been declared ruler of Santiago de los Caballeros in an international press conference, and the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Santiago de los Caballeros's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Santiago de los Caballeros is ranked 79,346^th in the world and 2^nd in America Central for Highest Food Quality, scoring 27.06 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.