The Sound Idea of Sound Ideas is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Zoo York with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 10.303 billion Hermaphrodites are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Evian. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Sound Ideasian economy, worth a remarkable 1,493 trillion BitConnects a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 144,913 BitConnects, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

NationStates staff are easily recognizable by their gold-plated mansions, the nation's youth voluntarily goes to bed early out of sheer tiredness from their working days, cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park, and kids are gathering at the local soda shop to celebrate staying out past sundown. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sound Ideas's national animal is the Fata Morgana, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Mood.

Sound Ideas is ranked 55,796^th in the world and 2^nd in The Cheesecake Factory for Safest, scoring 101.59 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.