The Syndicate of Sigma Iotia II is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Bela Oxmyx with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, ubiquitous missile silos, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.324 billion Bosses are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry also on the agenda, while Environment and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chicago. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Sigma Iotia economy, worth a remarkable 1,269 trillion Heaters a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 122,979 Heaters, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 731,970 per year while the poor average 9,463, a ratio of 77.3 to 1.

Gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs, it's scientifically provable that Sigma Iotia guys don't know how to make a woman happy, the government has declared that sharing is uncaring, and animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Sigma Iotia II's national animal is the Gangster, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Chicago Mobs of the Twenties.

Sigma Iotia II is ranked 4,553^rd in the world and 24^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Primitive, scoring 126.16 on the Scary Big Number Scale.