The Free Land of Sanguinoa is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, infamous sell-swords, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 529 million Sanguinoans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marav. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 28.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Sanguinoan economy, worth 63.6 trillion guineas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 120,173 guineas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 367,106 per year while the poor average 30,491, a ratio of 12.0 to 1.

Molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public, town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists, Sanguinoan soldiers are assured their new ray-guns will finally power up after the next round of ominous chanting, and maximum security Sanguinoan subway stations inspire prison systems around the world. Crime is moderate. Sanguinoa's national animal is the tiger, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sanguinoa is ranked 108,420^th in the world and 1^st in Red River Valley for Most Extreme, scoring 22.73 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.