The People's Republic of Sinodi is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, sprawling nuclear power plants, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed population of 911 million Sinodians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dongchen. The average income tax rate is 67.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sinodian economy, worth 116 trillion Gold Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 127,642 Gold Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A stitch in time could see you serving nine, scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway, the news is showing footage of Leader bullying an old man to the point of tears, and prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sinodi's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sinodi is ranked 182,024^th in the world and 4,014^th in The North Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 15.18 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.