The Oceanic Communes of New Samon is a titanic, genial nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 11.748 billion Samons enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Samonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,945 trillion pearls a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 165,639 pearls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, the latest national park is visited by more sharks than people, sweat stains are proof of political acumen, and windows in New Samon City don't have much of a view. Crime is totally unknown. New Samon's national animal is the fish, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

New Samon is ranked 4,485^th in the world and 42^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 168 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.