The Bright and Shiny Promise of Always the Sun is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Sunny Boy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its daily referendums, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 30.512 billion Always the Sunians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunset. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.1%.

The all-consuming Always the Sunian economy, worth a remarkable 2,797 trillion Suns a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 91,674 Suns, with the richest citizens earning 9.2 times as much as the poorest.

Voting is compulsory, citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy, education and welfare spending are on the rise, and glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Always the Sun's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Brother Sun.

Always the Sun is ranked 114,419^th in the world and 3^rd in The Allied States for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 87.46 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.