The Democratic Republic of Sarom is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its closed borders, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 513 million Saromians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 63.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Saromian economy, worth 34.0 trillion Mazons a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 66,250 Mazons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Troublemakers boast about how many times they have to visit their therapist, every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, baby formula has some strange packaging, and the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sarom's national animal is the Auroch, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sarom is ranked 91,107^th in the world and 53^rd in Britannia for Most Developed, scoring 64.04 on the Human Development Index.