The Gummy Candy of Sour Patch Kid is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Dominic the Great with a fair hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.041 billion Sour Patch Kids 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sour Patch HQ. The average income tax rate is 39.0%.

The Sour Patch Kid economy, worth 43.5 trillion Sour Coins a year, is led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,741 Sour Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges, juries are mostly made up of wealthy busybodies and ex-convicts, protests are legal but strictly supervised, and employers may fire workers without giving any reason. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sour Patch Kid's national animal is the Gummy Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sour Patch Kid is ranked 166,849^th in the world and 2,815^th in The North Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 54.26 on the Human Development Index.