The Sultanate of Somethingstan is a small, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and prohibition of alcohol. The cynical, devout population of 23 million Somethingstanis are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 46.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Somethingstanian economy, worth 964 billion dinars a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,927 dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Frat-house partying has become the national pastime, Somethingstan City Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years, onions have been banned due to their tendency to cause eye irritation, and children seem to be getting better at lying these days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Somethingstan's national animal is the Honey Bee, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Somethingstan is ranked 65,230^th in the world and 5^th in Wachu Land for Most Patriotic, with 21.62 flags saluted per person per day.