The Colony of Saint Hyperiamon is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 590 million Saintians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Saintion. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.8%.

The very strong Saint Hyperiamonian economy, worth 43.6 trillion liveroes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 73,909 liveroes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,664 per year while the poor average 19,626, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Angst-filled teenagers are rushing off to buy government bonds for some odd reason, hotels often double as quarantine zones, life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average, and it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Hyperiamon's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Saint Hyperiamon is ranked 65,591^st in the world and 25^th in Arkana Coalition for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,601.35 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.