The United Socialist States of Samenith is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Gustavo Fring with an even hand, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, keen interest in outer space, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, devout population of 4.26 billion Samenithians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Los Pollos Hermanos. The average income tax rate is 84.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Samenithian economy, worth 407 trillion Carbon tetrachlorides 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 95,581 Carbon tetrachlorides, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, the Department of Reduction of Bureaucratic Red Tape has set up a working committee to investigate its own excessive paperwork, maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter, and cults that offer eternal life after death to those who follow a self-sacrificing saviour are frowned upon. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Samenith's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Gnosticism.

Samenith is ranked 264,373^rd in the world and 4,901^st in the South Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -8.37 on the Clooney Contribution Index.