The People's Republic of Sevid is a small, safe nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 45 million Sevidians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Sevidian economy, worth 473 billion Ndias a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Pizza Delivery, and Information Technology. Average income is 10,530 Ndias, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Even secular Sevidians are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!", solid-gold toilets are Sevidian prisons' least expensive furnishings, third party candidates are now gaining some representation in Parliament, and no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sevid's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Sevid is ranked 198,933^rd in the world and 1,897^th in the West Pacific for Fattest Citizens, with 9.36 Obesity Rate.