The Watchfires of SI-1 is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its frequent executions, complete lack of prisons, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 28.484 billion SI-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.9%.

The very strong SI-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,861 trillion $$s a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 65,344 $$s, with the richest citizens earning 5.6 times as much as the poorest.

Rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons, cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon, fortified nursing homes are wracked with daily skirmishes, and a generation of children conceived in hell and born in strife is growing up inside government-run care villages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SI-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SI-1 is ranked 283,142^nd in the world and 6^th in BLITZKRIEG for Nicest Citizens, with 3.13 average smiles per day.