The Federation of Southeastern Service 27 is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 8.954 billion Southeastern Service 27ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 23.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Southeastern Service 27ian economy, worth 504 trillion Credits 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 56,325 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem, Bigtopian relations have become a minefield, boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, and every street in the nation contains at least three law firms. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southeastern Service 27's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Southeastern Service 27 is ranked 77,778^th in the world and 1^st in So Sweet for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,138.04 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.