The Backward Nation of Saipotgnimmel is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 734 million Saipotgnimmelians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Saipotgnimmelian economy, worth 17.4 trillion Dancing Defenders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 23,665 Dancing Defenders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saipotgnimmel's national animal is the Devil, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Saipotgnimmel is ranked 217,859^th in the world and 3,106^th in Artificial Solar System for Highest Average Incomes, with 23,665.87 Standard Monetary Units.