The Lunatic Asylum of Simone Republic is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Simone with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, sprawling nuclear power plants, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 10.467 billion Simonians enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mona. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Simonian economy, worth a remarkable 4,110 trillion Mones a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 392,748 Mones, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,706,160 per year while the poor average 57,316, a ratio of 29.8 to 1.

Vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, destitute AIs lurk around online bulletin boards begging for spare Mones, and the rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities. Crime is totally unknown. Simone Republic's national animal is the Salmon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is God.

Simone Republic is ranked 285,530^th in the world and 6,229^th in The North Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -27.39 on the Clooney Contribution Index.