The Kingdom of Sycamorstan is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by King Jack III with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.063 billion Sycamorstanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Willville. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Sycamorstanian economy, worth a remarkable 2,631 trillion lire 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an amazing 326,399 lire, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens can freely debate whether King Jack III is a great leader or the greatest leader, couch potatoes are considered to be model citizens, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows, and Sycamorstanians wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sycamorstan's national animal is the giraffe, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Jackism.

Sycamorstan is ranked 147,896^th in the world and 1,900^th in the West Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 836.61 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.