The Federation of Suontee Lake is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, frequent executions, and digital currency. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 1.174 billion Suontee Lakeans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 67.1%.

The powerhouse Suontee Lakean economy, worth 88.6 trillion gambles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 75,500 gambles, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Immigrants who don't like the taste of Suontee Lakean Turnip Chips are immediately deported, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, the fattest folk in Suontee Lake look to be the happiest ones, and prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Suontee Lake's national animal is the gamble, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Suontee Lake is ranked 280,918^th in the world and 181^st in Lakes in Finland for Most Cultured, scoring 62 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.