The Crushing Disappointment of Suraklin is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Suraklin with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 1.943 billion Suraklinians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Deeps. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Suraklinian economy, worth 59.0 trillion shiny trinkets a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 30,384 shiny trinkets, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diplomacy is a foreign concept to Suraklinians, recent events in Dàguó have been classified 'for Suraklin's eyes only', it is technically inaccurate to call the dead 'worm food', and the Department of Reduction of Bureaucratic Red Tape has set up a working committee to investigate its own excessive paperwork. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Suraklin's national animal is the lovely elven horsey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Suraklinism.

Suraklin is ranked 19,101^st in the world and 2^nd in Hyperion993 for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,328.53 on the Societal Mobility Rating.