The Democratic States of Sauklin is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 333 million Sauklinians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sauklinian economy, worth 17.9 trillion clemens a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 53,788 clemens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, and scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sauklin's national animal is the tufted ground squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sauklin is ranked 33,905^th in the world and 97^th in Carcassonne for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 3,786.49 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.