The United Socialist States of Sigmia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Chairman of the Sigmian Federal Council with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.49 billion Sigmians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Heliopolis. The average income tax rate is 79.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sigmian economy, worth 191 trillion euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 128,654 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, and vaccinations are mandatory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sigmia's national animal is the Sigma, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Antitheism.

Sigmia is ranked 21,012^th in the world and 917^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.66 law-abiding acts per hour.