The Principality of Santoak is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Shinji Soryuu with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 2.762 billion Santoakians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokyo-2. The average income tax rate is 73.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Santoakian economy, worth 124 trillion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 44,996 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shinji Soryuu has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, they say that Santoakians made a dessert and called it peace, and debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Santoak's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Santoak is ranked 29,534^th in the world and 1,794^th in Lazarus for Highest Food Quality, scoring 69.71 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.