The Democratic Republic of Saintfu is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Spiro Maddox with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, frequent executions, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.422 billion Saintfuans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandora. The average income tax rate is 23.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Saintfuan economy, worth 261 trillion Freedom Credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 107,984 Freedom Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout, and prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos. Crime is totally unknown. Saintfu's national animal is the Axolotl and its national religion is Cult of the Spirits.

Saintfu is ranked 47,647^th in the world and 2,953^rd in Balder for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 154.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.