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The Sultanate of Saterun is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Sultan Khalid Marja with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, national health service, and triple-decker prams. The compassionate, cynical population of 11.79 billion Sateryuns 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 government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Anasb. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Saterna economy, worth 895 trillion sols a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,929 sols, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and the nation has nearly as many history museums as Sateryuns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saterun's national animal is the Jaguar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Freedom of religion.

Saterun is ranked 266,160^th in the world and 11,000^th in Lazarus for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 18,223.11 Standard Monetary Units.