The Republic of Sourath is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 20.745 billion Sourathians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 80.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Sourathian economy, worth a remarkable 3,485 trillion kronor 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 168,030 kronor, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 642,358 per year while the poor average 30,373, a ratio of 21.1 to 1.

Travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort, older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road, and landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sourath's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Sourath is ranked 298,656^th in the world and 98^th in Commonwealth of Liberty for Most Developed, scoring 49.92 on the Human Development Index.