The Eternal Bloom of Sakurielle is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Saya with an even hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.021 billion Sakurians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sakuraé. The average income tax rate is 93.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sakuriellean economy, worth 198 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 98,038 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

This year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year, anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst, mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights, and flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sakurielle's national animal is the shima enaga, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hanamori.

Sakurielle is ranked 66,853^rd in the world and 579^th in the West Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 98,039 Standard Monetary Units.