The State of Sachson is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its irreverence towards religion and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 11.427 billion Sachsonians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The very strong Sachsonian economy, worth 814 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 71,322 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 215,512 per year while the poor average 18,380, a ratio of 11.7 to 1.

International collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through Sachson, S-SPAN viewership drops as MPs act their age, convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail, and organ donation rates have hit a new low. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Sachson's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sachson is ranked 25,017^th in the world and 1^st in Saxony for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 6,027.93 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.