The Empire of SSDT is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.758 billion SSDTians 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped SSDTian economy, worth 47.2 trillion SSDTS a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 26,848 SSDTS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Teachers regularly paddle unruly students, the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners, human resources employees have time for hobbies as harassment is designated "high praise", and bicyclists are banned from major roads. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SSDT's national animal is the esport, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SSDT is ranked 262,174^th in the world and 21^st in Communist Defense Pact for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 15.81 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.