The Queen's State of Sainte Martin is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 28.167 billion Sainte Martinians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.8%.

The powerhouse Sainte Martinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,472 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. Average income is 52,277 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 355,422 per year while the poor average 2,808, a ratio of 126 to 1.

All tariffs have been abolished, the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, and Sainte Martin is notorious for its citizens' infidelity. Crime is a major problem. Sainte Martin's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Sainte Martin is ranked 286,521^st in the world and 9^th in Addis Ababa for Lowest Crime Rates, with 37.42 law-abiding acts per hour.