The Theocracy of The Smiling God is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ubiquitous missile silos, and state-planned economy. The democratic, devout population of 740 million Cultists are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Cultist economy, worth 21.5 trillion energy credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 29,078 energy credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security, newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines, and meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Smiling God's national animal is the besh'ra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Smiling God is ranked 94,228^th in the world and 11^th in Astral Sea for Nudest, with 172 cheeks per square mile.