The Protectorate of SP38 is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 489 million SP38ians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.7%.

The very strong SP38ian economy, worth 33.5 trillion bitcoins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is 68,491 bitcoins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 202,448 per year while the poor average 18,211, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears, visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers, economics is a shrinking field, and the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SP38's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

SP38 is ranked 188,797^th in the world and 45^th in SP farm for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 983.07 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.