The Republic of Surenus is a mammoth, cultured nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.946 billion Surenusians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 47.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Surenusian economy, worth 417 trillion drachmas 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. 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 46,708 drachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Books are often used as kindling, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping, and enemy combatants are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Surenus's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Surenus is ranked 105,296^th in the world and 476^th in Remembrance for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 11,153.27 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.