The Republic of San Montagna is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, frequent executions, and avowedly heterosexual populace. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 15.855 billion Sammontagnese 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 Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sabazio. The average income tax rate is 82.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient San Montagnan economy, worth a remarkable 3,611 trillion Lires a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 227,762 Lires, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The comic book series 'Leader and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller, dining out often involves Cool animals on the plate no matter what you order, parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs, and Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. San Montagna's national animal is the Cool animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Catholicism.

San Montagna is ranked 7,352^nd in the world and 14^th in The Western Isles for Highest Average Incomes, with 227,762.63 Standard Monetary Units.