The Confederacy of Sanxia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Pesoe with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 2.14 billion Sanxians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Administration and Defense also on the agenda, while Welfare and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Perro. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sanxian economy, worth 334 trillion masses a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 156,464 masses, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,427,231 per year while the poor average 1,904, a ratio of 749 to 1.

Programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours, the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story, no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, and the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sanxia's national animal is the moro, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is neo-pesoeism.

Sanxia is ranked 30,262^nd in the world and 10^th in Tarkin for Most Cultured, scoring 79 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.