The United Aisladan Republics of Sarkos is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by President Christopher Millei with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 4.315 billion Sarkosans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cácieres. The average income tax rate is 57.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Sarkosan economy, worth 479 trillion Rials a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 111,121 Rials, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Appliance stores are finding spy cameras embedded in their unboxed merchandise, anti-tourism militias patrol the borders, bin lorries have replaced birds as the source of the dawn chorus, and the diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sarkos's national animal is the Ram, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Sarkos is ranked 266,370^th in the world and 3,601^st in The East Pacific for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -3.16 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.