The Incorporated States of Synodos is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 611 million Synodosians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business government prioritizes Administration, with Education, Defense, and Welfare also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dollar City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.8%.

The thriving Synodosian economy, worth 57.8 trillion Drachmas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 94,550 Drachmas, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 370,630 per year while the poor average 16,411, a ratio of 22.6 to 1.

Politicians are often seen attending regional history classes at primary schools within their constituencies, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, 90% of active duty SAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Dollar City. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Synodos's national animal is the Winged Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Synodos is ranked 185,876^th in the world and 10^th in The Southern Lands for Most Extreme, scoring 16.27 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.