The Queen's State of Puerto de Santa Maria is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 19.403 billion Puerto de Santa Marians 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, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, with Industry and Education also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Welfare receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.7%.

The thriving Puerto de Santa Marian economy, worth 672 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Average income is 34,659 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 100,376 per year while the poor average 9,483, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

Nudity is frowned upon, elections have been outlawed, and a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway. Crime is a serious problem. Puerto de Santa Maria's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Puerto de Santa Maria is ranked 69,247^th in the world and 3^rd in Plague for Most Corrupt Governments, with 26.22 kickbacks per hour.