The Potentially Great Country of South Austral is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Jake Filipo Kolter with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 1.248 billion South Australs are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wolverhampton. The average income tax rate is 79.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient South Australian economy, worth 140 trillion Taxeses a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 112,841 Taxeses, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is voluntary, Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused, friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns, and naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. South Austral's national animal is the American Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Prygacism.

South Austral is ranked 25,485^th in the world and 66^th in The League for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 243.9 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.