The Cult of The Smiling God is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.861 billion Cultists are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cultist economy, worth 56.5 trillion energy credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 30,371 energy credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hell is not always other people, cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, citizens partake in escapades with creatures of the night, and elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-energy credit mansions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Smiling God's national animal is the besh'ra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Smiling God is ranked 254,922^nd in the world and 20^th in Astral Sea for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 3,520.31 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.