The Watchfires of SEI-1 is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 28.971 billion SEI-1ians 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 54.9%.

The strong SEI-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,300 trillion $$s a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 44,899 $$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

People who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned, the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons, traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways, and an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SEI-1's national animal is the ^-^.

SEI-1 is ranked 256,269^th in the world and 1^st in New Berlin for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 27.45 on the Bus Surprisal Index.