The Federation of Sokoviii is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, national health service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 622 million Sokoviiians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Sokoviiian economy, worth 51.7 trillion Sokoliks a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,183 Sokoliks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers, no one is quite sure what many government officials look like, the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming, and people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sokoviii's national animal is the Sokol, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sokoviii is ranked 27,907^th in the world and 1,059^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 230.47 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.