The United Kingdom of Southmen is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by The Anathema with an even hand, and remarkable for its public floggings, disturbing lack of elderly people, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 12.69 billion Southmenians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Subterranea. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Southmenian economy, worth a remarkable 2,652 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 209,030 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, gossip magazines have pictures of The Anathema sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, diminutive Southmenian generals are feared for their aggressiveness, and begun the Clone Wars have. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Southmen's national animal is the wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is None.

Southmen is ranked 89,331^st in the world and 40^th in Wysteria for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,106.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.