The Republic of SOTRIE SORTIE SORTIE SORTIE is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, state-planned economy, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, devout population of 10.497 billion SOTRIE SORTIE SORTIE SORTIEians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse SOTRIE SORTIE SORTIE SORTIEian economy, worth a remarkable 1,080 trillion florins 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 102,979 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners, raccoons are plump and satiated, public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, and scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied turtle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SOTRIE SORTIE SORTIE SORTIE's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

SOTRIE SORTIE SORTIE SORTIE is ranked 153,943^rd in the world and 8,683^rd in Alliance of Supreme Powers for Largest Black Market, with 1.08 trillion Standard Monetary Units.