The Federal Republic of Sao-Paulo is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Felipo Femurth with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, soft-spoken computers, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.57 billion Paulistas 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of São Paulo. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Paulistan economy, worth 647 trillion Cruzadoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 181,257 Cruzadoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues, people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety, the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Sao-Paulo, and Paulistan diplomacy is by the book. Crime is totally unknown. Sao-Paulo's national animal is the Jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Athyism.

Sao-Paulo is ranked 308,974^th in the world and 64^th in South America for Most Primitive, scoring -446.36 on the Scary Big Number Scale.