The Sultanate of Seventeenist is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, devout population of 6.97 billion Seventeenistians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.5%.

The strong Seventeenistian economy, worth 464 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 66,687 florins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 307,416 per year while the poor average 8,750, a ratio of 35.1 to 1.

Smoking is banned in public areas, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', the nation has nearly as many history museums as Seventeenistians, and money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Seventeenist's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Seventeenist is ranked 171,989^th in the world and 1,924^th in Artificial Solar System for Nudest, with 113.5 cheeks per square mile.