The Sultanate of Saterun is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Sultan Khalid Marja with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, triple-decker prams, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cynical population of 15.696 billion Sateryuns 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anasb. The average income tax rate is 71.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Saternalian economy, worth a remarkable 1,189 trillion sols a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,814 sols, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire, the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", and students asking about negative square roots are told life has no simple answers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saterun's national animal is the Jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Freedom of religion.

Saterun is ranked 277,135^th in the world and 10,437^th in Lazarus for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -8.77 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.