The Second Round of Sarcand is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, disturbing lack of elderly people, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.228 billion Sarcandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 81.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sarcandian economy, worth a remarkable 3,447 trillion Secret Red Bottles 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 an impressive 142,290 Secret Red Bottles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Jaw strain is an increasingly common ailment, patch v22.1705 - all developers are now paid for work, the threat of economic apocalypse brings out the best in people, and citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sarcand's national animal is the Flower Pot, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sarcand is ranked 22,305^th in the world and 2^nd in Lily for Lowest Crime Rates, with 92.64 law-abiding acts per hour.