The Society of Siarki is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by the Upper Administration with an iron fist, and notable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 13.172 billion Siar critters are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Siarki. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Siar economy, worth a remarkable 2,946 trillion skils a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 223,675 skils, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life, a century of peace does not preclude peace negotiations, and the comic book series 'The Upper Administration and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Siarki's national animal is the obsidian martin bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Kashadism.

Siarki is ranked 2,340^th in the world and 1^st in Khidishi for Most Developed, scoring 97.84 on the Human Development Index.