The Allied States of South Africa Consul is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 39.192 billion South Africa Consulians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish South Africa Consulian economy, worth 675 trillion rand a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Cheese Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 17,225 rand, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. South Africa Consul's national animal is the springbok, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

South Africa Consul is ranked 111,633^rd in the world and 5^th in Mexico for Most Patriotic, with 13.98 flags saluted per person per day.