The United States of Sapien-Zustand is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 690 million Sapien-Zustandians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sapien-Zustandian economy, worth 108 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 157,014 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,423,449 per year while the poor average 2,029, a ratio of 701 to 1.

Only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations, all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength, the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, and the government is a law unto itself. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sapien-Zustand's national animal is the Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sapien-Zustand is ranked 288,343^rd in the world and 6,324^th in The North Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3.15 pounds of wildlife per square mile.