The Commonwealth of Sovianew is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 668 million Sovianewians 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of jujitsu kaisen. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The very strong Sovianewian economy, worth 38.6 trillion snds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Soda Sales, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 57,825 snds, with the richest citizens earning 6.7 times as much as the poorest.

Late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards, sushi just hasn't been the same since salmon went extinct overnight, women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up", and men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Sovianew's national animal is the elk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sovianew is ranked 174,171^st in the world and 2,522^nd in the South Pacific for Most Developed, scoring 53.97 on the Human Development Index.