The Republic of Spa Ill Atand is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Fred Waterford with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.464 billion Spa Ill Atandians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Goshen. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Spa Ill Atandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,144 trillion Tokens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Retail, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 226,621 Tokens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

National stress about the waning heir-line is causing a rise in alopecia, priests are being drafted by the church load, toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters, and endangered species face obesity instead of extinction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spa Ill Atand's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Gilead.

Spa Ill Atand is ranked 293,768^th in the world and 5,607^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 0.09 average smiles per day.