The Sniper of -Quiet- is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Quiet with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic population of 14.645 billion Quietians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Baltimore. The average income tax rate is 38.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Quietian economy, worth a remarkable 1,428 trillion Kojima Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is 97,527 Kojima Coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy, conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, and genetic research has been halted. Crime is totally unknown. -Quiet-'s national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

-Quiet- is ranked 47,088^th in the world and 1^st in FOXHOUND for Most Developed, scoring 78.23 on the Human Development Index.