The Republic of South Epheron is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Pieter van Schalkwyk with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 21.152 billion South Epheronians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaap Chamaven. The average income tax rate is 23.3%.

The very strong South Epheronian economy, worth a remarkable 1,569 trillion South Epheron Daalders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 74,212 South Epheron Daalders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Believers who wear their faith on their sleeves make easy targets in hostile areas, foreigners are treated with great suspicion, newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, and children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. South Epheron's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Epheronian Calvinism.

South Epheron is ranked 101,824^th in the world and 17^th in Western Atlantic for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.63 law-abiding acts per hour.