The New Republic of SAmbUca is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by President Amelia Watson with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, public floggings, and national health service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.482 billion SAmbUcans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Canberra. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sambian economy, worth 493 trillion Gold Bars a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 141,624 Gold Bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation thinks the universe revolves around them, rabbits are known to spontaneously explode without warning, citizens are constantly disappointed to find their nuisance neighbours are still alive, and the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SAmbUca's national animal is the Jangahordian, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Canberra Catholicism.

SAmbUca is ranked 121,038^th in the world and 6^th in The House of Buca for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 1,469.04 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.