The Republic of SSN18 is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Daniel O'Connell with an even hand, and renowned for its prohibition of alcohol, rampant corporate plagiarism, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 8.102 billion SSN18ians 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, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dublin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.0%.

The frighteningly efficient SSN18ian economy, worth a remarkable 2,182 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 269,434 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.

Wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles, hordes of gardening enthusiasts are being banished from cities nationwide, mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined, and many marriages go virtually unconsummated. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SSN18's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Celtic Paganism.

SSN18 is ranked 15,598^th in the world and 545^th in Mikes Hope for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 57 on the Kitten Softness Rating.