The State of Samarate is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 11.195 billion Samarateans 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 56.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Samaratean economy, worth 194 trillion betales 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 black market in Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 17,410 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, Samarate has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Samarate in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Samarate's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Samarate is ranked 190,783^rd in the world and 1^st in Samara for Most Primitive, scoring -76.81 on the Scary Big Number Scale.