The Dominion of Spharum is a colossal, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 7.098 billion Spharum 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, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 69.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Spharia economy, worth 357 trillion Platinum Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 50,320 Platinum Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth, machine gun nests are the latest must-have gardening trend, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, and cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spharum's national animal is the sheet metal, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Spharum is ranked 201,298^th in the world and 7^th in Dreams of Good Hope for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.01 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.