The State of Saipha is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, complete lack of prisons, and complete lack of public education. The hard-working, cynical population of 21.231 billion Saiphans 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 minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Welfare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.2%.

The powerhouse Saiphan economy, worth 777 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Retail. Average income is 36,609 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 129,586 per year while the poor average 7,467, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

The government is avowedly atheist and elections have been outlawed. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Saipha's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saipha is ranked 197,205^th in the world and 519^th in Ancient Lands for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring zero on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.