The Empire of Sautu is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by António da Silva with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.123 billion Sautuans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rei. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Sautuan economy, worth a remarkable 1,062 trillion euros a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 173,510 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, meat-eating is frowned upon, a historic rise in the minimum wage has crushed the economy with inflation, and high school bands practice by moonlight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sautu's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

Sautu is ranked 3,183^rd in the world and 69^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 128.5 law-abiding acts per hour.