The Colony of Three Sands Commission is a mammoth, orderly nation, remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, zero percent divorce rate, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.894 billion Three Sands Commissionians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 76.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Three Sands Commissionian economy, worth 914 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 115,797 pounds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Children as young as eight can be found working in factories, academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks, the state-controlled media salutes those about to spy, and commemoration of the Great Three Sands War costs almost as much as the war itself. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Three Sands Commission's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Three Sands Commission is ranked 265,817^th in the world and 1^st in Three Sands for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 26.62 on the Bus Surprisal Index.