The Colony of Sommorio is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 8.035 billion Sommorioans are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.5%.

The very strong Sommorioan economy, worth 479 trillion tcb coins a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 59,667 tcb coins, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, and corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sommorio's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sommorio is ranked 111,470^th in the world and 1^st in The League of Conservative Voices for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,974.94 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.