The Confederacy of Siral Bie is a mammoth, pleasant nation, renowned for its zero percent divorce rate, compulsory military service, and national health service. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 9.046 billion Siral Bieans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 40.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Siral Biean economy, worth 607 trillion his a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 67,184 his, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post, reassembling shredded papers is the highlight of a spy's day, and concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Siral Bie's national animal is the unicorn, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Siral Bie is ranked 67,138^th in the world and 233^rd in the Outback for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,524.17 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.