The Lucky Golden Holey People of Soem is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Pyt Snarkulton with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 29.348 billion Soemeosy hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snark City. The average income tax rate is 4.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Soemeon economy, worth a remarkable 4,468 trillion Ideas a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 152,270 Ideas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees her shadow, the art of conversation has been rediscovered, the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces, and the fines for getting caught with the wrong recipe book can force Soemeosy into bankruptcy. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Soem's national animal is the Snark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soem is ranked 23,055^th in the world and 759^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 6,546.42 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.