The Royal Republic of Southglory is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Lawrence Southglory with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 5.83 billion Southglorians 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Capital District. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Southgloryian economy, worth 577 trillion Currencs a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,984 Currencs, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 584,989 per year while the poor average 7,748, a ratio of 75.5 to 1.

Stocks go up when the internet says so, teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake, exterminator companies deploy nerve gas in turf wars, and all-natural foods are becoming a major fad. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southglory's national animal is the Anima, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Jakaraikyo.

Southglory is ranked 59,710^th in the world and 5^th in Sunny Rocks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 158.29 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.