The Holy Empire of Sneer is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 4.223 billion Sneerians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 33.0%.

The Sneerian economy, worth 169 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 40,049 Delta Eagles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings, it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away", a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted, and gun ownership is compulsory. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sneer's national animal is the Kitsune, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Sneer is ranked 183,148^th in the world and 4^th in Nocturne for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.