The District of Surcouf is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its absence of drug laws and punitive income tax rates. The democratic population of 35.041 billion Surcoufians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 68.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Surcoufian economy, worth 787 trillion betales a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 22,474 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is voluntary, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and the government is avowedly atheist. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Surcouf's national animal is the deer.

Surcouf is ranked 230,805^th in the world and 1^st in Republic of the Congo for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 38.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.