The Dictatorship of Samulate is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 650 million Samulateans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pakeda. The average income tax rate is 70.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Samulatean economy, worth 87.1 trillion Rand a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 134,061 Rand, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

The Samulatean Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses, and major cities run on potato batteries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Samulate's national animal is the Cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Samulate is ranked 40,964^th in the world and 313^th in Europeia for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 70.23 Effective Tax Rate.