The Totally Independent Nation of Spratly Islands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Queen Jia Ming with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, digital currency, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 3.114 billion Sprats are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Itu Aba. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Sprat economy, worth 356 trillion Yuan 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 114,503 Yuan, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens have never heard foreign radio, the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself, the sudden proliferation of nuclear weapons is very queer, and the space program has been reduced to Queen Jia Ming's nephew playing with a cardboard space shuttle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spratly Islands's national animal is the Feral Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spratly Islands is ranked 241,461^st in the world and 719^th in 10000 Islands for Most Cultured, scoring 63 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.