The Peopledom of Soem is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Pyt Snarkulton with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 25.691 billion Soemeosy are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Welfare, and Industry are also considered important, while Defense and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Snark City. The average income tax rate is 9.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Soemeon economy, worth a remarkable 3,242 trillion Ideas 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 large, well-organized, extremely specialized black market in Information Technology. 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 an impressive 126,217 Ideas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man, and the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Soem's national animal is the Snark, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Soem is ranked 23,539^th in the world and 919^th in the South Pacific for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 75.62 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.