The Borderlands of Sanaq is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and lack of airports. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 427 million Sanaqians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, although Welfare, Spirituality, and Law & Order are also considered important, while International Aid isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 84.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Sanaqian economy, worth 26.9 trillion stones 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 slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. 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 63,064 stones, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military doctrine says not to open fire until you see the "beady little eyes" of Johnny Foreigner, embarrassed police officers wear spandex and carry net guns, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', and all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sanaq's national animal is the camel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Sanaq is ranked 16,511^th in the world and 1^st in The Story of Civilization for Most Advanced Public Transport, scoring 2,534.86 on the Societal Mobility Rating.