The Republic of Square Island is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, infamous sell-swords, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 12.27 billion Square Islandians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Square Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 1,743 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 142,096 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site, Square Island City consists only of government buildings and the mansions of government janitors, kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history, and diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Square Island's national animal is the Crab, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Square Island is ranked 281,298^th in the world and 314^th in The grimy backyard of Bigej for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -12 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.