The Commonwealth of San Luis Abbey is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, avowedly heterosexual populace, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 178 million Abbeydwellers are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 72.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Abbeydweller economy, worth 11.0 trillion shiny pebbles a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 62,016 shiny pebbles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Sleeping on the job is recommended, camera crews have accompanied conscripted dancers to film 'Marching On Ice', nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, and pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Luis Abbey's national animal is the Three-Billed Mountain Pellican, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

San Luis Abbey is ranked 93,915^th in the world and 62^nd in Democratic Unity for Most Beautiful Environments, with 574.14 pounds of wildlife per square mile.