The Republic of Syncx is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Helena Vortanis with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 3.549 billion Syncxians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Syncxian economy, worth 719 trillion Skals a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an amazing 202,631 Skals, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 590,247 per year while the poor average 54,998, a ratio of 10.7 to 1.

Citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals, Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers, garden flower shows rarely smell of roses, and drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Syncx's national animal is the Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Athyism.

Syncx is ranked 235,992^nd in the world and 96^th in Portugal for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 127.65 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.