The Commonwealth of Saint Norm is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Prelate Lodovijk II with an even hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program, lack of airports, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 12.684 billion True Believers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The minute, corrupt government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Great Rejoicing. Income tax is unheard of.

The strong Faithful economy, worth 248 trillion Leaves a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 19,578 Leaves, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

All work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull, people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, Book Publishing facilities are being turned into Leafcutter Ant habitats, and travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Saint Norm's national animal is the Leafcutter Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ultra-Orthodox Empirical Syncretism.

Saint Norm is ranked 312,872^nd in the world and 1^st in Commonwealth of Saint Norm for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -11.83 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.