The Rogue Nation of Syren Reborn is a very large, cultured nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 284 million Syrenians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halbrandstadt. The average income tax rate is 66.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Syrenian economy, worth 25.0 trillion Leibsmarks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 87,969 Leibsmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans, foreign nationals who stumble near Syren Reborn are harbingers of war, high-tech infantry rifles automatically reload when the soldier shoots outside the screen of their helmet HUD, and shipping canals are a bit like unimaginative cheese shops — filled with debris. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Syren Reborn's national animal is the Bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Syren Reborn is ranked 87,232^nd in the world and 26^th in Der Leibwache for Most Developed, scoring 65.15 on the Human Development Index.