The Free Land of Sumina is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by the people with a fair hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, strictly enforced bedtime, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 4.662 billion Suminans 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, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sugus. The average income tax rate is 29.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Suminan economy, worth 942 trillion euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an amazing 202,111 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

The government is giving peace a chance, sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon, pregnant women get a lot of evil glares from fellow passengers when leaving the country, and bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sumina's national animal is the lion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Idiocy.

Sumina is ranked 27,975^th in the world and 544^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 5,926.68 on the Gilded Widget Scale.