The Nomadic Peoples of Solicetine is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.299 billion Solicetineans 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great Solicetine. The average income tax rate is 94.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Solicetinean economy, worth 765 trillion Breads a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 232,009 Breads, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth, former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders, and government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Solicetine's national animal is the Crow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Solicetine is ranked 4,478^th in the world and 150^th in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 170,576.14 Standard Monetary Units.