The Republic of Syria Sands is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate and compulsory military service. The compassionate, devout population of 1.092 billion Syria Sandsians 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 Spirituality, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sandy. The average income tax rate is 30.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Syria Sandsian economy, worth 42.3 trillion Dollars a year, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,720 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Insanely good theatre productions face government censorship, excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions, wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles, and Bigtopian relations have become a minefield. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Syria Sands's national animal is the Scorpion, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Syria Sands is ranked 213,192^nd in the world and 14^th in Syria for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 26,949.26 Standard Monetary Units.