The State of Stikine is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 36.319 billion Stikineans live in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is solely concerned with Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.8%.

The strong Stikinean economy, worth a remarkable 1,310 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 36,085 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 240,928 per year while the poor average 2,046, a ratio of 117 to 1.

The government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments, literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Stikine in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Stikine's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Stikine is ranked 292,931^st in the world and 1^st in Union of the North for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -5.48 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.