The Republic of SP42 is a very large, efficient nation, notable for its closed borders, anti-smoking policies, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 494 million SP42ians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.8%.

The thriving SP42ian economy, worth 30.1 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is notable. Average income is 60,991 guilders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 220,557 per year while the poor average 12,036, a ratio of 18.3 to 1.

Politicians can't accept birthday presents from their own children, the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape, libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it, and those who cut young children are told to cut it out. Crime is moderate. SP42's national animal is the leopard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

SP42 is ranked 241,861^st in the world and 40^th in SP farm for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring zero on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.