The Republic of Smithinia is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Arthur Marston with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 9.183 billion Smithinians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rhodes. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 84.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Smithinian economy, worth a remarkable 2,604 trillion Smithinian pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 283,631 Smithinian pounds, with the richest citizens earning 6.3 times as much as the poorest.

Young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield, medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities, and academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Smithinia's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

Smithinia is ranked 4,265^th in the world and 210^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 120.4 law-abiding acts per hour.