The Stoomboot of Sint-Nicolaas is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The democratic population of 20.741 billion sints are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Sint-Nicolaasian economy, worth 421 trillion pepernotens a year, is quite specialized and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 20,344 pepernotens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and Leader is the self-declared God of all Sint-Nicolaas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sint-Nicolaas's national animal is the goedweervandaag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Orioni.

Sint-Nicolaas is ranked 101,830^th in the world and 1^st in Sinterventie for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.63 law-abiding acts per hour.