The Confederacy of Santo is a titanic, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, pith helmet sales, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 16.637 billion Santoa are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Santoan economy, worth a remarkable 2,050 trillion mugs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Retail. Average income is an impressive 123,274 mugs, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,120,696 per year while the poor average 1,551, a ratio of 722 to 1.

It is common to see Maxémon Trainer listed on Santoan resumés, the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled Santo with a very polite populace, Santo is notorious for its citizens' infidelity, and all recreational drugs are legal. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Santo's national animal is the yellow-tailed ferret, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Santo is ranked 41,674^th in the world and 9^th in Union of Allied Planets for Highest Drug Use, scoring 298.95 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.