The Republic of Soeman is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by James Rather with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, aversion to nipples, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.284 billion Soemanians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Administration, and Law & Order are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Soeman City. The average income tax rate is 77.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Soemanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,696 trillion Sas a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 155,997 Sas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Fan-made edits of old films have seen a sudden jump in quality, commuters regularly break the sound barrier -- and several bones, waste collection professionals have been canned, and the stratosphere is full of "silent but deadly" attacks from James Rather's rear echelons. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Soeman's national animal is the San, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Violetism.

Soeman is ranked 304,363^rd in the world and 11^th in Zentari for Most Cultured, scoring 40 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.