The Republic of Smart Island is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 3.044 billion Smart Islandians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 58.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Smart Islandian economy, worth 222 trillion Golds a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,097 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs, top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists, an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, and drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Smart Island's national animal is the Clam.

Smart Island is ranked 92,022^nd in the world and 509^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 90.17 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.