The Federal Republic of Southern Bird Island is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 629 million Southern Bird Islandians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Birdington. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Southern Bird Islandian economy, worth 11.7 trillion Birdlandicoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 18,642 Birdlandicoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months, an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time, a video of Leader wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news, and pre-schoolers who draw stick figures of their favorite celebrities are sued for infringing image rights. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southern Bird Island's national animal is the Cockatiel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Southern Bird Island is ranked 137,935^th in the world and 1^st in Bird Nations for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 1,667.21 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.