The Syndicate of Sigma Iotia II is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Bela Oxmyx with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 9.089 billion Bosses are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry is also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chicago. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Sigma Iotia economy, worth a remarkable 1,100 trillion Heaters a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 121,051 Heaters, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 692,166 per year while the poor average 10,238, a ratio of 67.6 to 1.

If there's something strange in your neighborhood you call Brancaland, distant and obscure male relatives succeed to the Sigma Iotia throne, Bela Oxmyx shot first, and curtailed social programs have left many citizens bereft of any safety net. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Sigma Iotia II's national animal is the Gangster, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Chicago Mobs of the Twenties.

Sigma Iotia II is ranked 13,517^th in the world and 4^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Corrupt Governments, with 129.64 kickbacks per hour.