The Republic of Sinarus is a small, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 45 million Sinarussians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Sinarusian economy, worth 522 billion ещё не решеноs 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 11,605 ещё не решеноs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers, scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes, and newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sinarus's national animal is the ещё не решено, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sinarus is ranked 253,785^th in the world and 7^th in Putins Russia for Most Cultured, scoring 63 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.