The Dictatorship of Saris Ston Thes is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 9.347 billion Saris Ston Thesians 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 24.6%.

The very strong Saris Ston Thesian economy, worth 400 trillion guilders a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 42,879 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The government baselessly accuses foreign dignitaries of being assassins, adulthood begins with the creation of an email account, male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness', and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saris Ston Thes's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saris Ston Thes is ranked 95,589^th in the world and 31^st in Keep of Darkness XL for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,561.62 on the Gilded Widget Scale.