The Federal Republic of Simabe is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 381 million Simabeans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 24.2%.

The strong Simabean economy, worth 29.0 trillion euros a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 76,052 euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

Only adults may purchase violent video games, people are bored of easy crossword puzzles, the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire, and female restaurant chefs are not allowed to have male customers. Crime is totally unknown. Simabe's national animal is the penguin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Simabe is ranked 91,881^st in the world and 66^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 4,106.3 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.