The Travelling Nation of Sightseer is a massive, safe nation, ruled by The Sightseeing Guide with a fair hand, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, anti-smoking policies, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.135 billion sightseers love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sightseer City. The average income tax rate is 41.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong sightseeing economy, worth 56.2 trillion doubloons a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Tourism. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,506 doubloons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, going on a diet invalidates your passport, postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation, and nations that kill a sightseer can expect a strongly worded letter. Crime is totally unknown. Sightseer's national animal is the flamingo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Sightseeing.

Sightseer is ranked 156,587^th in the world and 32^nd in Metropolitan Union for Largest Governments, scoring 12.73 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.