The Federal Republic of Suratsawan is a large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its compulsory military service and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 127 million Suratsans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The strong Suratsan economy, worth 7.61 trillion Mars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Retail. Average income is 59,920 Mars, with the richest citizens earning 8.2 times as much as the poorest.

Ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks, it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, and the government pours millions of Mars into rehabilitation programs annually. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Suratsawan's national animal is the Arawan Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Suratsawan is ranked 249,293^rd in the world and 2,086^th in the West Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -5.48 on the Clooney Contribution Index.