The Most Serene Republic of Sobelis Islands is a very large, genial nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 434 million Sobeliand Islander 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 enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 62.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Sobeliand Islander economy, worth 11.6 trillion Socialist aureos a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 26,762 Socialist aureos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork, it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven, life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average, and foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sobelis Islands's national animal is the Pantera, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sobelis Islands is ranked 261,789^th in the world and 1,112^th in Europeia for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.56 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.