The Whirling Golden Sands of This Ship Is A Sandfly is a titanic, genial nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 21.828 billion Sandflyers are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 18.8%.

The strong This Ship Is A Sandflyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,509 trillion chips a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Soda Sales, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 69,161 chips, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

The mustang has a hungry look, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough', and matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold. Crime, especially youth-related, is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. This Ship Is A Sandfly's national animal is the mustang, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Shinto-Christian Buddhism.

This Ship Is A Sandfly is ranked 103,832^nd in the world and 2^nd in Firefly for Highest Average Incomes, with 69,161.21 Standard Monetary Units.