The United States of Sapien-Zustand is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 696 million Sapien-Zustandians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sapien-Zustandian economy, worth 109 trillion Dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is an impressive 158,027 Dollars, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,432,625 per year while the poor average 2,042, a ratio of 701 to 1.

The government is a law unto itself, blocked storm drains cause sanitation problems, the Sapien-Zustand Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, and former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sapien-Zustand's national animal is the Black Bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sapien-Zustand is ranked 7,629^th in the world and 151^st in The North Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 7,428.4 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.