The United Socialist States of COMMIEPLACE is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mighty Respected Comrade Joseph Stalin with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.031 billion Socialists enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 74.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Maoist economy, worth 23.5 trillion Revolutions a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 22,836 Revolutions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The election for Mighty Respected Comrade Joseph Stalin's office's janitor is heating up, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon, and citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. COMMIEPLACE's national animal is the Scientific Socialist, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

COMMIEPLACE is ranked 274,837^th in the world and 505^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.63 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.