The KickAss Corrections Officers of SORT is a gargantuan, orderly nation, renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 11.458 billion SORTans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Industry also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Florence. The average income tax rate is 91.4%.

The frighteningly efficient SORTan economy, worth a remarkable 1,232 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,533 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

The military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, foreign leaders who don't applaud Leader's speeches are regarded as enemies of SORT, and a new "thought police" branch is being developed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SORT's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

SORT is ranked 100,773^rd in the world and 4,805^th in The North Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 1,584.85 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.