The Confederacy of Saorysa is a very large, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, lack of airports, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic population of 454 million Saorysians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Evekan. The average income tax rate is 71.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Saorysian economy, worth 31.1 trillion khanos a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 68,429 khanos, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, people boast about their low income on their dating profiles, consuming ecstasy is a common rite of passage, and crops are flattened as farmers bludgeon insects to death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saorysa's national animal is the wild horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saorysa is ranked 16,561^st in the world and 69^th in Starlight for Most Cultured, scoring 94 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.