The Republic of SSN78 is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Daniel O'Connell with an even hand, and remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, free-roaming dinosaurs, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 2.97 billion SSN78ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dublin. The average income tax rate is 66.7%.

The frighteningly efficient SSN78ian economy, worth 534 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 180,054 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery, the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard, and black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SSN78's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Celtic Paganism.

SSN78 is ranked 29,696^th in the world and 22^nd in Nudist Dreamland for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 221.37 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.