The Commonwealth of SFA is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The directorate with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.404 billion SFAians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SFA. The average income tax rate is 87.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient SFAian economy, worth 153 trillion Grades a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 108,979 Grades, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks, the only thing slower than the economy is the exchange where it's managed, child support loans with high interest rates are available in SFAian banks, and female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SFA's national animal is the Student, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SFA is ranked 17,885^th in the world and 1^st in The Northern Atlantic for Highest Poor Incomes, with 96,328.18 Standard Monetary Units.