The Bioweapon Factory of Smashnet is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Daddy Sakurai with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, prohibition of alcohol, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.923 billion Test Subjects are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Welfare and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Final Destination. The average income tax rate is 50.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Smashing economy, worth 222 trillion Smash Balls a year, is mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,949 Smash Balls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's books regularly feature formerly distressed damsels suing their princes, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, the police double as repo men, and endocrinology is a rapidly growing field of study. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force. Smashnet's national animal is the Assist Trophy, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Smashnet is ranked 39,368^th in the world and 1^st in Sertia for Highest Poor Incomes, with 65,275.38 Standard Monetary Units.