The Serene Compassionate Utopia of Safj is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Tree Person with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, infamous sell-swords, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 29.675 billion Safjians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garfield. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Safjian economy, worth an astonishing 10,873 trillion Ivoxes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 366,436 Ivoxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, hospitals in Safj are too busy serving the needs of Texas to see Safjians, it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again, and Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume. Crime is totally unknown. Safj's national animal is the Dodo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Safj is ranked 32^nd in the world and 2^nd in Texas for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 99.03 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.