The Freople of Soem is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Pyt Snarfulton with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and labour-free parental leave. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 37.482 billion Soemeosy hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snarf City. The average income tax rate is 4.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Soemeon economy, worth a remarkable 8,687 trillion Ideas a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 231,781 Ideas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework, protestors are soaking piles of Ideas in blood to make a point about government incomes, descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true, and life is somewhat repetitive. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Soem's national animal is the Snarf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soem is ranked 315,971^st in the world and 5,201^st in the South Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -1298.47 on the Scary Big Number Scale.