The Planet of Spiands is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The humorless, devout population of 2.305 billion Spiandsians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 56.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Spiandsian economy, worth 247 trillion Imperial Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,284 Imperial Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 305,417 per year while the poor average 30,068, a ratio of 10.2 to 1.

Parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, the path to inner peace is paved with state-mandated punishment, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds, and students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spiands's national animal is the Farm Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Spiands is ranked 71,432^nd in the world and 15^th in Firmament for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 134.52 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.