The Principality of Santoak is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, soft-spoken computers, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed population of 1.099 billion Santoakians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Santoakian economy, worth 49.3 trillion deniers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 44,828 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The fate of the world literally rests on Leader's fingers, statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty, running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Santoak's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Santoak is ranked 264,066^th in the world and 126^th in Socialists for Most Primitive, scoring -121.02 on the Scary Big Number Scale.