The KickAss Corrections Officers of SORT is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 5.18 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of SORT City. The average income tax rate is 86.9%.

The all-consuming SORTan economy, worth 515 trillion dollars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 99,558 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand, traffic tickets are punishable by 9000 push-ups, and prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population. 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 16,336^th in the world and 785^th in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 111.57 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.