The Borderlands of Sanaq is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its closed borders, teetotalling pirates, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 447 million Sanaqians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, with Welfare, Spirituality, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 84.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sanaqian economy, worth 28.3 trillion stones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 63,365 stones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A life spent suffering in silence is considered noble, the justice of Sanaq is considered superior to that of other nations, angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes, and citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sanaq's national animal is the camel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sanaq is ranked 238,324^th in the world and 35^th in The Story of Civilization for Highest Drug Use, scoring 2.8 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.