The Exshaw refounder of A Safe Guard is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Fred Friend with an even hand, and notable for its enforced nudity and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 23.444 billion Safe Guardians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Safetown. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Safe Guardian economy, worth 634 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 27,068 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

The nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, education and welfare spending are on the rise, Fred Friend has just been declared ruler of A Safe Guard in an international press conference, and Safety has been named as A Safe Guard's national religion. Crime is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. A Safe Guard's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Safety.

A Safe Guard is ranked 198,011^th in the world and 1^st in Exshaw for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 41.83 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.