The Hivemind of The Seid is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by everyone with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 34.707 billion minds are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Defense, Healthcare, and Social Policy are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of our brains. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Seidian economy, worth an astonishing 16,549 trillion thoughts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 476,831 thoughts, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nine out of ten citizens of The Seid answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation, the price of freedom is about half a million thoughts, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Seidian weed picker are way up. Crime is totally unknown. The Seid's national animal is the individual, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is us.

The Seid is ranked 52^nd in the world and 1^st in the Rejected Realms for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 113.84 Effective Tax Rate.