The Watermelon Republic of Sebatopia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President Watermelon with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, strictly enforced bedtime, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.087 billion Watermelons are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Watermelon City. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Watermelon economy, worth a remarkable 5,266 trillion Watermelons a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 474,983 Watermelons, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,306,057 per year while the poor average 6,139, a ratio of 701 to 1.

School uniforms are compulsory, safe drinking water is considered a luxury, medical staff can legally quiet people who ask for a second helping of Salisbury steak, and the roar of the Niagara 3000 mega-loo can be heard several blocks away. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Sebatopia's national animal is the Capybara, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of Melon.

Sebatopia is ranked 487^th in the world and 3^rd in Eladen for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 22,547.1 on the Gilded Widget Scale.