The Grand Tribe of Sunam is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Grand Shaman Achad with an even hand, and remarkable for its closed borders, fear of technology, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 12.496 billion Sunamese are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ibis. The average income tax rate is 88.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Sunamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,070 trillion talismans a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. Average income is 85,707 talismans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces", citizens are constantly disappointed to find their nuisance neighbours are still alive, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, and meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Sunam's national animal is the ibis, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Solarism.

Sunam is ranked 53,663^rd in the world and 11^th in Universal Dream Network for Lowest Crime Rates, with 73.2 law-abiding acts per hour.