The Grand Duchy of Sarkot is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-working, devout population of 9 million Sarkotians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The tiny, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.8%.

The thriving Sarkotian economy, worth 792 billion Sarkotian Lire a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 88,016 Sarkotian Lire, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 267,651 per year while the poor average 22,478, a ratio of 11.9 to 1.

The government throws money at problems when in a jam, televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events, no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium, and crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Sarkot's national animal is the Leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sarkot is ranked 52,519^th in the world and 380^th in the West Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 4,542.9 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.