The Republic of Symbol Island is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 3.052 billion Symbol Islandians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 49.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Symbol Islandian economy, worth 311 trillion Golds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 102,069 Golds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All industry is owned and run by the government, the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience, father-son fishing trips have been banned, and boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Symbol Island's national animal is the Clam, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Symbol Island is ranked 45,934^th in the world and 309^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 158.93 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.