The Enlightened Republic of Southsea is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Luke Zhang with a fair hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, smutty television, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 6.033 billion Southseans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eleuthens. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Southsean economy, worth 982 trillion Souroes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 162,843 Souroes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government subsidizes those who produce the worst results, theoretical science is only theoretical, park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers, and romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars. Crime is totally unknown. Southsea's national animal is the 🦄 Unicorn, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is 🍗Fried Chicken.

Southsea is ranked 5,455^th in the world and 19^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Developed, scoring 94.13 on the Human Development Index.