The Sultanate of Sohaib is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Amir al-Mu'minin with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program, keen interest in outer space, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.353 billion humans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ahzab. The average income tax rate is 51.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient human economy, worth 158 trillion Gold Coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 116,780 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways, torture is illegal, roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews, and fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sohaib's national animal is the Python, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Sohaib is ranked 25,502^nd in the world and 245^th in Europeia for Most Cultured, scoring 82 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.