The Geordie o'er the hills of The Southern Dependencies is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Cadwaladr Edmunds with an even hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 2.712 billion Patagonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neuquén. The average income tax rate is 66.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong a Patagonian economy, worth 180 trillion Plata Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 66,650 Plata Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, and Patagonians are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Southern Dependencies's national animal is the Lamb, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

The Southern Dependencies is ranked 282,001^st in the world and 5,049^th in The East Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.4 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.