The National People's Republic of S state is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sebastian Petrovich Schmitd with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.919 billion S stateans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of new pressburg. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong S statean economy, worth 279 trillion Marks a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 71,440 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation, medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, cheese lovers have a case of the bleus, and third world countries are rich in "I Love New Pressburg" t-shirts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. S state's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Secularism.

S state is ranked 68,732^nd in the world and 276^th in Europeia for Most Influential, scoring 1,145 on the Soft Power Disbursement Rating.