The Freople of Soem is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Pyt Snarfulton with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, restrictive gun laws, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cheerful population of 36.212 billion Soemeosy enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snarf City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Soemeon economy, worth a remarkable 8,337 trillion Ideas a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 230,239 Ideas, with the richest citizens earning 9.7 times as much as the poorest.

Official maps have to be revised on a weekly basis, teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, rare steaks seem even bluer now, and the year's most anticipated show is "Great Deals on Delicious Meals". Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Soem's national animal is the Snarf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soem is ranked 293,054^th in the world and 5,564^th in the South Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -1192.33 on the Scary Big Number Scale.