The Republic of Sockmalerion is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 13.071 billion Sockmalerionians 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 tiny, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 4.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Sockmalerionian economy, worth a remarkable 2,505 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Soda Sales. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 191,675 rubles, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

The national arsenal is full of sound and fury signifying nothing, employers are never quite sure if graduates' qualifications have any merit or meaning, government-funded marriage counseling is showing very limited success, and guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Sockmalerion's national animal is the crocodile, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Sockmalerion is ranked 285,690^th in the world and 10^th in Oatland for Most Primitive, scoring -449.65 on the Scary Big Number Scale.