The Absolute Monarchy of The SME is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sodysseus Pooporium with an iron fist, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, zero percent divorce rate, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical population of 6.593 billion Sodyssians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Blumestadt. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sodyssian economy, worth 992 trillion Denarii a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 150,582 Denarii, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The year's most anticipated show is "Great Deals on Delicious Meals", even secular Sodyssians are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!", new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes, and children's TV shows are having a gay old time. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The SME's national animal is the Streptopelia risoria, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kyū-Maru-Shiki-Senshism.

The SME is ranked 3,891^st in the world and 1^st in Lands of the TLPROA for Lowest Crime Rates, with 122.9 law-abiding acts per hour.