The Constitutional Monarchy of SPHRANTZES is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Constantine XII Paleologos Dragases with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, national health service, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 14.349 billion SPHRANTZESians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lynx. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient SPHRANTZESian economy, worth a remarkable 3,417 trillion LEI a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 238,186 LEI, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, industrial chicken farmers hear no evil see no evil and cluck no evil, some achieve retirement and some have retirement thrust upon them, and truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SPHRANTZES's national animal is the Lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Byzantyne Orthodox.

SPHRANTZES is ranked 2,031^st in the world and 1^st in THE W0RLD for Most Developed, scoring 98 on the Human Development Index.