The Nomadic republics of Sudae is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The tamasheq council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, digital currency, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.098 billion Sudaeans 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 medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astanstan. The average income tax rate is 37.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Sudaean economy, worth 99.3 trillion sheep a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 90,397 sheep, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps", pawn shop reality shows dominate basic cable, scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays, and laughter while watching foreign diplomats disrobe tends to make diplomatic talks counterproductive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Sudae's national animal is the rattle snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sudae is ranked 203,478^th in the world and 48^th in Iris for Largest Populations, with 1.10 billion capita.