The Kingdom of Sphynx is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its triple-decker prams, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.621 billion Sphynxes are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pyramid. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Sphynx economy, worth 44.8 trillion triangles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 27,665 triangles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Weather forecasts regularly cover meteor showers, Leader sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy, drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth, and the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sphynx's national animal is the sphynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sphynx is ranked 214,660^th in the world and 1^st in Cool Cats for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.92 kickbacks per hour.