The Aerospace Agency of Saphman is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Airbus A350-900 with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.526 billion Saphians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of South Kevin Port. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 75.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Saphmanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,380 trillion New Bingus Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 391,562 New Bingus Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 3,341,267 per year while the poor average 8,052, a ratio of 415 to 1.

Nobody wants to know how the sausage is made, environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests, the lives of former ski town residents are going downhill, and tourists soak their luggage in boiling water before unpacking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saphman's national animal is the Kevin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Krakenism.

Saphman is ranked 293,244^th in the world and 12^th in The Outskirts for Highest Poor Incomes, with 8,052.03 Standard Monetary Units.