The Sultanate of Terra do sul is a large, orderly nation, renowned for its infamous sell-swords, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 86 million Sulistas enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 7.7%.

The powerhouse Terra do sulian economy, worth 5.55 trillion pesos a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 64,554 pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

The long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, the Terra do sul Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon', grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, and the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Terra do sul's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Terra do sul is ranked 175,381^st in the world and 64^th in The Archipelago States for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 128.39 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.