The Hivemind of The Seid is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by everyone with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, soft-spoken computers, and astonishingly minimal parenting. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 30.388 billion minds are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Defense, Healthcare, and Social Policy also on the agenda, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of our brains. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Seidian economy, worth an astonishing 13,836 trillion thoughts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 455,337 thoughts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

You need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly, road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans, war vets look after war animals, and criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat. Crime is totally unknown. The Seid's national animal is the individual, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is us.

The Seid is ranked 104^th in the world and 7^th in Refugia for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 22,023.28 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.