The Republic of Sulasok is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Salsalito Bayagbag with an iron fist, and notable for its lack of airports, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical, humorless population of 1.236 billion Sulasokians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vetlog. The average income tax rate is 42.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Sulasokian economy, worth 24.4 trillion Modtas 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. 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 19,774 Modtas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exterminators swarm Sulasokian homes, unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia faint upon diagnosis, and political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sulasok's national animal is the Ratbu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sulasok is ranked 115,473^rd in the world and 1,382^nd in the South Pacific for Smartest Citizens, with 34.23 quips per hour.