The Enlightened Republic of Southsea is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by President Luke Zhang with a fair hand, and notable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.079 billion Southseans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eleuthens. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Southsean economy, worth 987 trillion Souroes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 162,482 Souroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification, and the government spares every expense for national defence. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southsea's national animal is the 🦄 Unicorn, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is 🍗Fried Chicken.

Southsea is ranked 10,174^th in the world and 25^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 421.87 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.