The Freople of Soem is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Pyt Snarfulton with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, cheerful population of 36.18 billion Soemeosy enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snarf City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 36.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Soemeon economy, worth a remarkable 8,288 trillion Ideas a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 229,084 Ideas, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 649,397 per year while the poor average 64,584, a ratio of 10.1 to 1.

Signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Pyt Snarfulton to meetings with foreign heads of state, the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Soem's national animal is the Snarf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soem is ranked 14,888^th in the world and 256^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 8,275.43 on the Gilded Widget Scale.