The Join Lily of Sweeze 46 is a titanic, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The devout population of 16.444 billion Join Lily 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 29.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Join Lily economy, worth 676 trillion Join Lilies a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,136 Join Lilies, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The last thing Join Lily soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach, and aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sweeze 46's national animal is the Join Lily, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Sweeze 46 is ranked 155,323^rd in the world and 318^th in Lily for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 72.11 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.