The Holy Red Necropolis of Santisima Muerte is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Dama Catrina Calavera de los Muertos with a fair hand, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 14.954 billion Santisima Muerteans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calaveras. The average income tax rate is 92.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Santisima Muertean economy, worth a remarkable 1,369 trillion Promesas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 91,606 Promesas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year, imitation is the sincerest form of felony, many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators, and all industry is owned and run by the government. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Santisima Muerte's national animal is the Rattlesnake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Santisima Muerte is ranked 7,797^th in the world and 5^th in The Labyrinth for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,841.33 pounds of wildlife per square mile.