The Republic of Sarumon the Silly is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.298 billion Sarumon the Sillyians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 30.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Sarumon the Sillyian economy, worth 98.5 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,848 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys, election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll, and economists claim no news is good news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sarumon the Silly's national animal is the unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sarumon the Silly is ranked 123,994^th in the world and 2,183^rd in Suspicious for Lowest Crime Rates, with 63.31 law-abiding acts per hour.